David Given wrote: > John Winters wrote: >> I wasn't expecting to find Ubuntu pre-installed. I've had a little hunt >> to see if I can find the login information, but without luck so far. >> >> Is it normal for these to come with a booting Ubuntu system >> pre-installed? >> > > Yes, that's quite normal. (Although finding it on /dev/ttyUSB0 isn't --- > USB0 is usually the JTAG port and USB1 is the serial console.)
I've connected my SheevaPlug to 3 different Linux systems and on all of them it produces only a /dev/ttyUSB0, which is the console. > > The Ubuntu installation's actually in pretty poor shape and apt won't > work out of the box. (You can't use apt on a jffs2 filesystem since it > doesn't support writeable mmap.) Recommendations are to install Martin > Michlmayr's u-boot upgrade (which allows booting off SD card) Done that. > and then to put Debian on it... And that, but then I did an "apt-get dist-upgrade" and that seems to have broken booting again. Waiting in hope for clues about why. Cheers, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
