Re: What is the status of Debian on Lemote Fuloong?
* Michael Stevens (mstevens@etla.org) [120705 16:21]:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 01:47:06PM +0000, Code Blue wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can anyone please tell me the status of Debian on the Lemote Fuloong? I
> > saw Lemote and MIPS Inc. have been submitting patches against the Linux
> > kernel and binutils pretty regularly. I have been looking around but have
> > not found any page that is current describing how to install Debian on the
> > Fuloong Mini. I am hoping to get a very recent kernel to take advantages of
> > the latest support for this device.
> >
> > I wanted to dual boot OpenBSD and some version of Linux on this box so while
> > I still had the original configuration I partitioned the hard drive and then
> > installed OpenBSD. I have partitions ready to go for the Debian installation
> > but since the device doesn't have a CD or DVD drive and I was not able to find
> > a bootable USB installer for it, I have no idea what to do next. All help
> > will be appreciated. Thank you.
>
> I don't know the official status but I'm running Debian testing on my
> fuloong. Most things seem to work, i was able to do a USB install. I
> didn't find any good instructions for the install and I was unable to
> get grub to work, so I'm currently putting up with very slow pmon boots.
For the basic system, also stable should work. Grub should just work
out of the box (and is faster in reading from the disk than pmon but
both should work).
Andi
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