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Re: port to Droboshare (headless, NAS box)



Hi Peter,

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:50:05PM -0500, Peter Silva wrote:
> never installed Debian on non-pc'ish platform.  So I have this headless NAS
> box.
> It's ARM based.  I can build code for it using a gnu-eabi developers kit
> from codesourcery.com
> I was thinking that instead of custom building all sorts of apps, the simple
> thing to do would be
> to get it to kexec into a standard debian, where folks can apt-get whatever
> they please.
> Was thinking of a netinst'ish box.

I recently started my porting experience with getting Debian / d-i going on
the D-Link DNS-323.  I wrote up what I learnt at
http://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/general/porting_d-i_to_the_dns_323.html
if you're interested.  It answers a few of the questions you've posed.

- Matt


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