On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:49:00 +1000 Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 5/04/2013 6:49 AM, Celejar wrote: > > FWIW, I've been running Debian Wheezy on a Seagate Go Flex Net > > (STAK100 - http://projects.doozan.com/debian/) for a while, with pretty > > good results. It's a Kirkwood system with 128MB RAM, 256MB NAND, 2 SATA > > connectors, 1 USB port and Gigabit ethernet > > I'm looking at installing Debian on one of these: > > http://www.megabuy.com.au/seagate-stbf500300-goflex-satellite-500gb-mobile-wireless-portable-hard-drive-p10274465.html > > It has built in wireless capability (and battery) with the 500GB disk. > > A serious limitation of the unit is that it creates it's "own" WiFi > network and doesn't participate in an existing WiFi network.... that's > what I really want to fix. > > The firmware download includes a uImage file as follows: > > # file uImage > uImage: u-boot legacy uImage, Linux-2.6.32, Linux/ARM, OS Kernel Image > (Not compressed), 2313388 bytes, Tue Dec 20 21:36:47 2011, Load Address: > 0x80008000, Entry Point: 0x80008000, Header CRC: 0x01B18018, Data CRC: > 0x0AA8AC17 > > So, I'm hoping that it will be possible to make this unit much more > useful as a very portable Debian box. Well, good luck, but a quick web search doesn't suggest that people have gotten real Debian (or Arch) running on that model. There's a thread here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2012/08/threads.html#00107 But the thing doesn't seem to appear on Jeff Doozan's site, or on archlinuxarm. > AndrewM Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130624214503.4452ce0fe4dfb39c1f388...@gmail.com
