On Sun, 26 Feb 2012, Matt Palmer wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 08:52:15AM +0000, Jamie Lentin wrote:I'm happy with both of them, especially given how cheap they are. You will need to be reasonably happy wielding a soldering iron and compiling kernels to get Debian installed, but that's all part of the fun :)Porting d-i to new devices like these typically isn't particularly hard. I managed to work out how to do it for the DNS-323. That allows people who aren't so keen on a soldering iron to participate in the full Debiany goodness on their NAS.
I have wondered about trying this. However, I was under the impression that I should be getting support into the mainline kernel first, otherwise any patches to the debian kernel wouldn't be accepted. Is this true?
D-link offer a "fun_plug" hook in the init scripts that will run anything installed on the SATA drive. This could in theory be used to run d-i in a chroot environment and install Debian to NAND/HDD. This seems easier & safer than flashing a temporary installer image on the NAND. Does anything attempt anything similar?
Cheers, -- Jamie Lentin