Re: d-i installation on embedded devices (was Re: [pkg-fso-maint] MTD Installation)

2009-03-27 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:00:48PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > I think we clearly need to have a plan, divided into two phases: > > 1) installation into the microSD > >a. booting d-i on the FR, which is an easy task given that we must > use the pkg-fso kernel package [2]. > >b. st

Re: d-i installation on embedded devices (was Re: [pkg-fso-maint] MTD Installation)

2009-03-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 04:47:28PM +, Per Andersson wrote: > My first question is if it is possible to run d-i without having to > boot it. Use case would be to use the nandsim module (maybe from > inside a chroot) "live" on my normal installation instead of having to > boot the installer in, s

Re: d-i installation on embedded devices (was Re: [pkg-fso-maint] MTD Installation)

2009-03-26 Thread Per Andersson
Hi! Yesterday while doing research about UBI and MTD I found the nandsim module. This is a kernel module which emulates a MTD flash device. Of course this would be great to have when developing software that uses MTD. My first question is if it is possible to run d-i without having to boot it. Us

Re: d-i installation on embedded devices (was Re: [pkg-fso-maint] MTD Installation)

2009-03-25 Thread Per Andersson
Hey there! On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Luca Capello wrote: >> 2009/3/25 Joachim Breitner : Maybe some other thread discusses this already, but why don't you use d-i for installation? >>> >>> Simplicity. We wanted to get started as fast as possible. But given the >>> ever increasin

d-i installation on embedded devices (was Re: [pkg-fso-maint] MTD Installation)

2009-03-25 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:45:09 +0100, Per Andersson wrote: > (Cc:ing debian-boot.) Done, but please keep the pkg-fso-maint@ mailing list cc:ed as well, TIA. Doing so, there is no need to cc: me. I also cc:ed the debian-embedded@ mailing list, people from there should be interested as we

Re: [pkg-fso-maint] MTD Installation

2009-03-25 Thread Per Andersson
(Cc:ing debian-boot.) 2009/3/25 Joachim Breitner : >> Maybe some other thread discusses this already, >> but why don't you use d-i for installation? > > Simplicity. We wanted to get started as fast as possible. But given the > ever increasing complexity of install.sh, this should be the goal, yet.

MTD Installation

2009-03-22 Thread Per Andersson
(This presentational e-mail is sent to debian-boot, soc-coordination and pkg-fso-maint.) Hi there! For those that don't know, my name is Per and I am at my final year studying a master's degree in computer science. Last year I did a (successful) GSoC project called Debian NAS. [0] After GSoC I s