On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 12:13 PM, David Crawford <dtgcrawf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've dug my Yeeloong 2F out of storage and have been trying to get an OS > onto it. I've tried Debian, but it fails to install GRUB - then cannot find > boot.cfg when it tries to boot. I wasn't able to manually boot it with karg. > > The only OS's I've managed to get onto it successfully are the Lemote Debian > restore and Free BSD. The former is in Chinese and the latter doesn't have > functioning wireless. :( > > I've had Debian working fine on it in the past - I'm not sure what to do. > I'll settle for any OS, command line or GUI as long as it's in English and > the Wifi works. Would appreciate some advice as to what's currently the best > OS to put on this system. The Lemote Debian would be fine if I could get it > into English.
Gentoo worked well for me. But installing it was a pain from memory, I seem to remember just untarring it into a spare partition in the existing system and then setting the bootloader to boot into it. Justin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "loongson-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to loongson-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to loongson-dev@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/loongson-dev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
