On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 09:41:15PM -0700, Braddock Gaskill wrote: > Is there much hope of getting Debian running on a Seagate GoFlex > Satellite? This is a very sexy little Linux-based device which encloses a > 500GB harddrive with wifi and runs off a battery. It has been partially > hacked already to install additional packages, but I haven't seen a full > distro put on it.
It's got enough grunt to be able to run Debian, so there's the possibility. > What would be involved in getting Debian to run? Where would I start? I documented my adventures porting d-i to the DNS-323 at http://hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2008/10/23/porting-d-i-to-the-dns-323.html; whilst it focuses on the d-i work, there's some basic info in there about the general requirements to get Debian working on a device. (Wow, nearly 4 years ago... my how time flies) > Is anyone interested in working on this? Got a spare one to send my way to pull apart and work on? I've got several weeks of enforced vacation coming up, but I have no real *use* for one of these things, so dropping $300 for something to poke at isn't real enticing. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120814095230.gx3...@hezmatt.org
