(No need to CC me, I read the list.) On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Tim Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Per Andersson wrote: >> >> Do you think the current debian installer code and method >> for installing Debian on the Kurobox Pro would work for >> Linkstation Pro/Live as well? The method goes something >> like this: >> >> 1) Create a ext2 filesystem on the first partition on the >> attached harddrive. (Has to be ext2 because u-boot can only >> load files from ext2.) >> > > Well, the first partition should already be ext2 at this point, because > that's where the kernel+initrd which have got you into "emergency mode" come > from.
But this assumes no hard disk upgrade etc, right?! >> 2) Download uImage.buffalo, initrd.buffalo and flash-debian >> 3) Put uImage.buffalo and initrd.buffalo on the created ext2 >> partition >> 4) Run flash-debian >> > > I don't know what "flash-debian" does.... The script flash-debian apparently was renamed to config-debian... Anyway the script [0] checks that the installer images are present at the correct place, checks that nvram tool exists and then changes the u-boot environment. >> 5) Reboot >> > > Before this point, you would need to check the firmware revision, and then > either delete the initrd= uboot "nvram" setting, or use a non-standard > debian kernel (or the initramfs won't load). It could be included in a flash-debian script specifically for the Linkstation Pro. >> 6) Install Debian over SSH >> 7) Reboot >> 8) ??? >> 9) Success! >> > > OK, but I cam see a few problems with this approach: > > 1. If the Buffalo software is not working, or not present on the HD, you > can't install Debian. > 2. If you start with a blank hard drive (e.g. you have upgraded the hard > drive), you can't install Debian. But this would be the same for EM right? If you upgrade the hard drive you don't have any EM either? > 3. If you can't get into your Debian install for some reason (e.g. > filesystem corruption, or you've just forgotten the root password), you > would be unable to re-install Debian (or anything else). This is solved by rescue-initramfs [1], which I have prepared and tested patches that enables you to login via SSH if the rootfs didn't come up. (Patches are not commited yet.) > For these reasons, I think I would recommend just relying on what's in flash > (i.e. uboot - default or otherwise) as a prerequisite for the install.... I don't follow you here... -- Per [0] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/d-i/trunk/installer/build/boot/arm/kuroboxpro-config-debian?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/rescue-initramfs.git;a=summary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
