Hello! Before I start doing something with this device and probably ruin it I have a question. Is this device completely supported by the ARM Slackware port? ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 <at> gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
In my experience, yes. You may have to update the uboot in it so it will boot off USB device. That is what I had to do to get my dockstar running
Hello!
Before I start doing something with this device and probably ruin it I
have a question.
Is this device completely supported by the ARM Slackware port?
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On 10 July 2012 19:58, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 <at> gmail.com> wrote: > Is this device completely supported by the ARM Slackware port? I guess Stuart would say: "it's not a case of "porting" - it's just adding support". -- -- Ottavio
> > Is this device completely supported by the ARM Slackware port? > > I guess Stuart would say: "it's not a case of "porting" - it's just > adding support". Not to answer *that* question I wouldn't. The dockstar is supported in the way that a kernel is supplied that runs on that device. Much to my disgust, someone on this list used one of those pointless devicesSee- http://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=dockstar&l=armedslack%40lists.armedslack.org -- -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Stuart Winter <m-lists <at> biscuit.org.uk> wrote: > >> > Is this device completely supported by the ARM Slackware port? >> >> I guess Stuart would say: "it's not a case of "porting" - it's just >> adding support". > > Not to answer *that* question I wouldn't. > > The dockstar is supported in the way that a kernel is supplied that runs > on that device. > > Much to my disgust, someone on this list used one of those pointless > devices
No hardware clock, have to use ntp to sync the time. This is a problem if it is not connected to the "internet"
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Stuart Winter <m-lists <at> biscuit.org.uk> wrote:Hello!
>
>> > Is this device completely supported by the ARM Slackware port?
>>
>> I guess Stuart would say: "it's not a case of "porting" - it's just
>> adding support".
>
> Not to answer *that* question I wouldn't.
>
> The dockstar is supported in the way that a kernel is supplied that runs
> on that device.
>
> Much to my disgust, someone on this list used one of those pointless
> devices
> See-
> http://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=dockstar&l=armedslack%40lists.armedslack.org
>
Okay, what about them bothers you?
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> Hello! > Okay, what about them bothers you? I always think about using the machines as either 'desktops' or build machines, so anything that is of low spec doesn't interest me at all - especially when there are better machines out there. The dockstar has no RTC and only 128MB RAM. IMO if you were going to spend any money on a Kirkwood machine, buy a SheevaPlug. More costly but it's *supposed* to be developed on so it's completely open (rather than sold as an appliance for a particular application and having to be hacked) and has 512MB RAM. -- -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org
On 7/10/2012 13:09, Stuart Winter wrote: > so anything that is of low spec doesn't interest me at all - > especially when there are better machines out there. The Dockstar is such a cute form factor, though. Especially when you put one of the 2.5" drives in it. But you're right, only 128MB is painful. (Although I did have one running MySQL, Postgresql, Lighttpd, PHP, Gallery, Wordpress, git and Davical! But I recently moved all that stuff over to a GuruPlug because the image processing for Gallery was just painfully slow.) -- -- Mersenne Law LLC · www.mersenne.com · +1-503-679-1671 - Small Business, Startup and Intellectual Property Law - 1500 SW First Ave. · Suite 1170 · Portland, Oregon 97201
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 4:16 PM, David Madden <dhm <at> mersenne.com> wrote: > On 7/10/2012 13:09, Stuart Winter wrote: >> so anything that is of low spec doesn't interest me at all - >> especially when there are better machines out there. > > The Dockstar is such a cute form factor, though. Especially when you > put one of the 2.5" drives in it. But you're right, only 128MB is > painful. (Although I did have one running MySQL, Postgresql, Lighttpd, > PHP, Gallery, Wordpress, git and Davical! But I recently moved all that > stuff over to a GuruPlug because the image processing for Gallery was > just painfully slow.) > > -- > Mersenne Law LLC · www.mersenne.com · +1-503-679-1671 > - Small Business, Startup and Intellectual Property Law - > 1500 SW First Ave. · Suite 1170 · Portland, Oregon 97201 > > > _______________________________________________ > ARMedslack mailing list > ARMedslack <at> lists.armedslack.org > http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack Hello! I agree folks. Really. I've already got a black Pogoplug here doing all of that with two drives attached. I originally wanted to track down of them (the Seagate Dockstar) about a year or so earlier, when there was talk of stuffing one of the others on it, OpenWRT in fact. That also included the serial port on the device which has its pins the front. Someone else had gotten the thing to talk to a screen via one those VGA to USB translation devices as well. But for me that platform is perfect for exploring the world of running Linux on non-Intel platforms. Oh and thank you Stuart for creating this port. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 <at> gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On 07/10/2012 03:50 PM, Stuart Winter wrote: >>> Is this device completely supported by the ARM Slackware port? >> I guess Stuart would say: "it's not a case of "porting" - it's just >> adding support". > Not to answer *that* question I wouldn't. > > The dockstar is supported in the way that a kernel is supplied that runs > on that device. > > Much to my disgust, someone on this list used one of those pointless > devices
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Rich <richard.lapointe <at> gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/10/2012 03:50 PM, Stuart Winter wrote: >>>> >>>> Is this device completely supported by the ARM Slackware port? >>> >>> I guess Stuart would say: "it's not a case of "porting" - it's just >>> adding support". >> >> Not to answer *that* question I wouldn't. >> >> The dockstar is supported in the way that a kernel is supplied that runs >> on that device. >> >> Much to my disgust, someone on this list used one of those pointless >> devices
On 7/10/2012 20:46, Gregg Levine wrote: > what space requirements should > I take into consideration? I spent a fair amount of time trying to put together a tiny system that would fit into the Flash on a Dockstar, but ended up with a more conventional installation (system on USB disk). More recently, I built a GuruPlug system to take over the Dockstar's duties, and was able to fit Linux-3.4.4, Apache, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and a fair amount of other stuff into the 507MB flash, with ... let's see ... almost 100MB left. (This is using a UBI compressed filesystem.) For the GuruPlug install, I started with Arch Linux, rather than Slackware. I'm not up on the politics of the various distros, but it seemed like Arch made it easier to pick & choose individual packages. I plan to rebuild the Dockstar after the GuruPlug has a few weeks to get the bugs shaken out, and I'll probably try to fit an Arch Linux installation into the 128MB flash. I doubt I can fit a complete LAMP setup, but I really only need NFS, CUPS and maybe a basic web server. You should make sure you can access the TTL-level serial port on the Dockstar before you get too fancy with it! -- -- Mersenne Law LLC · www.mersenne.com · +1-503-679-1671 - Small Business, Startup and Intellectual Property Law - 1500 SW First Ave. · Suite 1170 · Portland, Oregon 97201
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On 07/10/2012 11:46 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Rich<richard.lapointe <at> gmail.com> wrote: >> On 07/10/2012 03:50 PM, Stuart Winter wrote: >>>>> Is this device completely supported by the ARM Slackware port? >>>> I guess Stuart would say: "it's not a case of "porting" - it's just >>>> adding support". >>> Not to answer *that* question I wouldn't. >>> >>> The dockstar is supported in the way that a kernel is supplied that runs >>> on that device. >>> >>> Much to my disgust, someone on this list used one of those pointless >>> devices
The Dockstar has an identical processor ("Kirkwood") to the
SheevaPlug, which is supported.
It takes some extra effort to "hack" the bootloader on the Dockstar,
but once I had that sorted, running Slackware on my Dockstar was no
problem.
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
> Before I start doing something with this device and probably ruin it I
> have a question.
>
> Is this device completely supported by the ARM Slackware port?
>
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