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Nov 20 18:54:01 <IsoLinCHiP> Hmm, is the nslu2 project dead? Bugtracker and Package Search engine are down.
Nov 20 19:00:55 <IsoLinCHiP> Has anyone recently been able to install SlugOS on a flashdrive? I have the impression the turnup is doing something wrong, as I cant write the the flashdrive after rebooting after running turnup. The files are written to RAM rather than to the flash drive.
Nov 20 20:36:32 <DrJ> IsoLinCHiP, its not really dead, but its not really being worked on either
Nov 20 20:36:39 <DrJ> to my knowledge
Nov 20 20:36:59 <DrJ> the package search engine has been down for a long time ... even when things were still in development
Nov 20 20:40:20 <IsoLinCHiP> Hmm, too bad
Nov 20 20:41:06 <IsoLinCHiP> Which flavour are you running (if any), if I might ask DrJ?
Nov 20 20:41:15 <DrJ> Slugos/be
Nov 20 20:41:25 <DrJ> have not had mine on in a while though
Nov 20 20:41:42 <IsoLinCHiP> Which version?
Nov 20 20:42:18 <IsoLinCHiP> Ive been trying to install slugos/be aswell, but somethings wrong with the mounting and Im at a loss what the problem might be
Nov 20 20:42:42 <DrJ> did you follow this: http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/OpenSlug/InitialisingOpenSlug
Nov 20 20:44:09 <IsoLinCHiP> No, this one http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/SlugOS/InstallandTurnupABasicSlugOSSystem but they are fairly similar
Nov 20 20:45:02 <DrJ> okay
Nov 20 20:45:06 <DrJ> so where are you at exactly
Nov 20 20:45:08 <DrJ> and what's the problem
Nov 20 20:45:22 <DrJ> btw, I recommend following the instruction from the link I pasted
Nov 20 20:45:34 <IsoLinCHiP> At the step where I want to create and activate the swap file
Nov 20 20:45:58 <IsoLinCHiP> any attempts to create a file in the root directory "/" fill up available ram
Nov 20 20:46:12 <DrJ> umm
Nov 20 20:46:22 <DrJ> are you working off the flash or a disk?
Nov 20 20:47:25 <IsoLinCHiP> Its a 16 GB flash drive that I setup by partitioning it on another computer with gparted to ext3 and then ran the turnup memstick option
Nov 20 20:47:51 <DrJ> okay, frankly I don't think you should do it that way
Nov 20 20:47:55 <DrJ> and would be better to start over
Nov 20 20:48:12 <DrJ> and partition the disk with the nslu2
Nov 20 20:48:20 <IsoLinCHiP> well Im all ears for a better suggestion
Nov 20 20:48:45 <DrJ> I've installed like 100 slugs in my lifetime IsoLinCHiP, and I always followed this: http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/OpenSlug/InitialisingOpenSlug
Nov 20 20:48:52 <IsoLinCHiP> hmm, fdisk kinda sucks
Nov 20 20:49:48 * DrJ use to buy nslu2's off ebay and external hard drives, install slugos on it with some basic packages like http server etc and sell them again on ebay for 2-3x the cost
Nov 20 20:51:09 <IsoLinCHiP> Well, I dont really see what the practical difference is to doing the partitioning on the nslu itsself
Nov 20 20:53:11 <DrJ> you never really answered my question on if you are running off the flash or an external disk
Nov 20 20:54:10 <DrJ> by the way, swap is not like windows paging file ... its not a file, its a partition
Nov 20 20:54:17 <IsoLinCHiP> Sorry, I thought I wrong its a 16 gb flash drive
Nov 20 20:54:44 <DrJ> you did, but you didn't say if you were running on it
Nov 20 20:54:51 <IsoLinCHiP> You can use a swappartition or a swapfile in linux
Nov 20 20:55:06 <IsoLinCHiP> Well thats because I dont know to be honest, I am assuming I am
Nov 20 20:56:02 <DrJ> see if you can run this command: df /
Nov 20 20:56:09 <DrJ> I believe that will work on the slugos
Nov 20 20:57:39 <IsoLinCHiP> well according to mount / is /dev/sda1 but practically it doesnt seem to be
Nov 20 20:57:59 <DrJ> does df / -h work?
Nov 20 20:58:16 <DrJ> if so, does it show the size as near the 16GB?
Nov 20 20:58:52 <IsoLinCHiP> Hang on, Im booting the slug
Nov 20 20:58:55 <DrJ> k
Nov 20 20:59:09 <IsoLinCHiP> and no it wouldnt show 16g since I only partitioned 4 GB for the sda1
Nov 20 20:59:20 <DrJ> okay, then 4GB :)
Nov 20 20:59:33 <DrJ> that's still way more than it would be if you ran off the internal flash
Nov 20 21:00:11 <DrJ> which I think was 8MB
Nov 20 21:00:34 <DrJ> been so long I'm forgetting this stuff :)
Nov 20 21:05:29 <IsoLinCHiP> yes also df-h reports "/" as /dev/sda1 with ~4GB
Nov 20 21:07:05 <DrJ> hmm, not sure then
Nov 20 21:09:07 <IsoLinCHiP> yeah, thats kinda my problem too :/
Nov 20 21:16:04 <IsoLinCHiP> there definately is a difference when I turnup flash and reboot. then it has /dev/root on "/"
Nov 20 21:16:39 <IsoLinCHiP> Im just going to see if turnup disk rather than memstick fixes the problem
Nov 20 21:21:27 <IsoLinCHiP> Ahh, now I remember why I used another computer for setting up the partition, I get this error:
Nov 20 21:21:29 <IsoLinCHiP> ext2fs_mkdir: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while creating root dir
Nov 20 21:21:53 <IsoLinCHiP> if I run it on the slug itself
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