Re: Alternative development platform for Debian-ARM: GLAN Tank (and SH4 LAN Tank)
Hi,
> > GLAN Tank Media Server
> > "Challenger", the PC power-user brand of I-O DATA Japan, announced its
> > latest media server product, GLAN Tank, for January 2006.
> > It's bare bone kit product. The case can embark two 3.5-inch PATA
> > HDDs. Compared to former models(based on SH4 CPU) it also features
> > Intel Gigabit Ethernet, Intel XScale(IOP80219) 400 MHz CPU, 128 MB
> > memory, and four USB ports. The OS is Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 and Linux
> > kernel 2.6.10.
>
> This is really cool. Since it is already shipped with Debian, It would be
> really nice to get it oficially supported in next Debian release. If I
> read correctly your product page, you provide users a bootable CD to
> bootstrap the harddrive to be put on the device. Is this based on
> debian-installer or something new? I think such cross-bootstrapping
> could be usefull for others too.
It's not quite obvious on how to get something like debian-installer
working.
If there was a method by firmware for GLAN tank to boot from USB
floppy/cdrom or, from network, we could use the conventional d-i
protocols; but I gather that's not the case.
regards,
junichi
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dancer@{debian.org,netfort.gr.jp} Debian Project
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