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Debian on the Slug - Part 3

December 15th, 2006 · 1 Comment

The whole of last night was spent installing Debian on the slug - and yes, it worked great!
There was nothing much to do, other than ssh over to the box; a menu based installer started automatically. There is an option within the installer to drop into a shell. I first verified that I could […]

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Debian on the Slug - Part 2

December 14th, 2006 · No Comments

Tried my hand at soldering a connector to the slug board - abandoned it soon as I found that I might make a mess out of it. A kind fellow on the slug irc channel advised me to do the following:

Reflash with Linksys firmware, and immediately,
Telnet into RedBootThe `First manual method’ worked fine for […]

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Debian on the Slug - Part 1

December 12th, 2006 · No Comments

Tried setting up Debian on my NSLU2 as per the guidelines given here. Flashing the new firmware was OK - but upon rebooting, it was getting stuck somewhere. Staring at a few LED’s and trying to understand what is going wrong is dumb - the only way out seems to be to solder a […]

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Slugged!

December 6th, 2006 · No Comments

Got a Linksys NSLU2 yesterday!

Yes, this cute little box can run Debian GNU/Linux!
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Tags: Debian · Linksys NSLU2