Re: Squeezebox Radio
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 07:10:31PM +0200, Marcus Better wrote:
> I got myself a Squeezebox Radio [1] the other day, really wonderful little
> device for Internet radio and music, but apart from that, it is running a
> Linux distro called SqueezeOS [2] with kernel 2.6.26. The machine is a
> Freescale i.MX25 with a 400 MHz ARM926EJ core, and it has 64 MB of RAM and
> 128 MB flash.
>
> The wiki [2] has pretty good information on the OS, and the whole firmware
> can be built from sources with an OpenEmbedded-based system.
>
> The boot loader is Uboot, and it has support for alternating between two
> versions of kernel and initrd in flash, for upgrades.
>
> So the natural question is: how can I put Debian on the thing?
With 128MB of flash, I'm not sure if a useful Debian installation will fit.
If it doesn't have USB expansion, chances are you're out of luck. You'll
probably have more luck with emdebian, but I don't follow that project
particularly closely.
- Matt
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