Hi, I saw somebody asking about Debian/Mips on the open source Nanonote hardware [1] on this list in March [2]. Just to give an update: There is wiki-page about installing a pre-configured Debian root filesystem on a micro-SD card: http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Debian I just wrote a new page about how the Mipsel-Malta debian installer can be run on the Nanonote (currently by chrooting from the openwrt in the nand-flash, still pretty hacky): http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Debian/Installer With the next version of u-boot, booting micro-SD cards should become more stable [3]. (I still used a pre-release version, see the wiki pages). Pretty amazing, how a basic Debian installation uses < 10Mb of RAM from the 32Mb available on the Nanonote. Also pretty amazing how simple it is to setup Debian on this kind of unusual hardware. BTW although hard to find, there are also various Mailinglists for discussions around Nanonote [4]. cheers, David [1] http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Ben_NanoNote [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mips/2010/03/msg00019.html [3] http://en.qi-hardware.com/pipermail/discussion/2010-July/000925.html [4] http://en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo -- GnuPG public key: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~dvdkhlng/dk.gpg Fingerprint: B17A DC95 D293 657B 4205 D016 7DEF 5323 C174 7D40
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