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Re: NSLU2 Debian installer for lenny beta 2



On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:25:23 +0200, Martin Michlmayr (tbm@cyrius.com) wrote: 

> The Debian installer team has published the second beta release of the
> installer for lenny (what will become Debian 5.0).  I repacked the
> image for the Linksys NSLU2 with the proprietary IXP4xx microcode so
> Ethernet will work.
> 
> The installer is now available in two flavours for the ARM
> architecture: "arm" is the old ARM port whereas "armel" is the new ARM
> port using the EABI (see <http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort>) which
> offers better support for floating point and other features.  Both the
> arm and armel architectures will be supported for lenny but the old
> arm port will be dropped after the release of lenny.  At this point, I
> therefore recommend that people use armel for new installations.
> 
> The beta 2 installer image for NSLU2 can be found on my site:
> 
> armel (recommended): http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/files/tmp/debian-armel-5.0beta2.zip
> arm: http://cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/files/tmp/debian-arm-5.0beta2.zip

Thank you very much Martin. Much appreciated.  I shall be trying the new
armel install this weekend. 

-- 
Bob Cox.  Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK.
Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - http://counter.li.org/

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