On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Justin Cormack <jus...@specialbusservice.com> wrote: > 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.
https://blogs.gentoo.org/blueness/2014/07/02/continued-support-for-the-lemote-yeeloong-gentoo-mips-is-alive-and-well/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/mips/desktop-loongson2f/ check the README file, all should good to go. -- 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.
