Hi Jack, Do you want * a pre-installed SD card, that boots Debian and works without upgrading the Dreamplug bootloader?
Or do you want * a method of upgrading the bootloader that does not involve the Internet, and * an SD card with all the FreedomBox development environment on it? Many thanks, Nick Nick Hardiman [email protected] @intmachines On 30 Jan 2013, at 14:47, Jack Wilborn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, I am new with the DreamPlug (which I have and am running in > it's original state) and am not a Linux wizard. I posed a couple of > these questions to Nick D. On his suggestion I am posting them here > for assistance from users that have a working DP. > > The basic problem here is that I don't have a good Internet connection > and NO Internet to my Linux box. I have a dual boot Windows 8/Debian > Linux on a quad core 386 (i5-3450) with 32G of memory and a Atheros > WiFi card that is not detected by Debian, and works under Windows. So > some of the parts of creating an image is not applicable to my venue > and others as I've found out. > > I have a couple of questions, first can you create the proper FS on a > USB memory stick to install the current with the original bootloader? > I understand this is probably a negative, so can I create the proper > FS on the USB stick or SD (when I get the proper hardware) via the > Dreamplug original software? If all else fails, then does someone > know the proper steps to create the bootloader on a USB stick to > update the bootloader without turning my DP into a brick. > > The following is the original note to Nick... > > >> Nick, one of the problems I have now is that they want me to format >> the SD card to a fat partition (with mkdosfs) and then to build a >> partition with ext3 (I would change it to ext2 based on your >> suggestion), but I have no way to interface with the SD on my Linux >> box. >> >> Can this be done under dos? At least the initial format. Or better >> yet, how about using the DP to format this properly, is the software >> on the DP usable to build this file system? I do have it up, blinking >> and talking via it's Linux. I can find the SD card or the USB card >> OK. > > Any assistance would be of great value to me. Also any information > will be gathered for other in the same boat. > > Thanks > Jack > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
