<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">ic thanks<br><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 9/17/09, Stuart Winter <i><m-lists@biscuit.org.uk></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Stuart Winter <m-lists@biscuit.org.uk><br>Subject: Re: [ARMedslack] [armedslack] Installing Armed on the Sheeva NAND Flash<br>To: "Slackware ARM port" <armedslack@lists.armedslack.org><br>Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 2:04 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail"><br>> is there not a way to use dfu-utilites to install the .jffs2 file to nand?<br><br>Regardless of what tool was used to write a JFFS2 image to NAND, you'd<br>still need to prepare the JFFS2 image somehow.<br>How could this be achieved from the installer on an ARM box? You'd need<br>somewhere to install to, then create a JFFS2 image from the
installed<br>"root".<br>If you don't have an ARM box with the Slackware packaging tools, you have<br>the same challenges I mentioned about the package post install scripts.<br><br>All in all, my opinion is that the NAND is not somewhere to "install" to.<br>It's a place for the vendor to ship a standard Blue Peter "look, here's<br>what we did earlier" stock installation.<br>I'm not saying that it cannot be done, but I think getting SD card<br>installation support would be a) easier, b) more worth while since you can<br>have large capacity SD cards.<br><br><br></div><br>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<br><br><div class="plainMail">_______________________________________________<br>ARMedslack mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org" href="/mc/compose?to=ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org">ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack"
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