[debian-non-standard] debootstrap from x86 to mipsel

Tomasz Orłowski t.orlowski at wsisiz.edu.pl
Mon Jul 14 14:29:30 CEST 2008


Just want to say that I successfully created etch system using 
debootstrap 1.0.6 for my wl500gp, so if somebody will be interested, I 
can post step-by-step instruction.

Once again thanks to Tomasz C and Luci


Tomasz Chmielewski pisze:
> Tomasz Orłowski schrieb:
>> Tomasz Chmielewski pisze:
>>>
>>> So you can either:
>>> - try if current (unstable) debootstrap works better on mixed 
>>> architectures than a couple of years ago
>>> - start your own mipsel in qemu (or on your asus), do debootstrap there
>>> - download ready images :) - i.e., from my site
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks mate... of course item 3 I did successfully a long time ago. Now
>> just playing with it :P (read it: I want to brick my box ... again)
>> Have you done any compilations for revisions > 9285 with swap running?
>> Just looking at this old thread https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/2035 and
>> a little bit lost which of latest revisions works with swap (I don't
>> need b43 - atheros on-board ;o) ).
>
> Yeah, current openwrt svn work stable with swap (2.6.25.x).
>
> The b43 wireless is somehow problematic (you need some patches, use a 
> newer wireless-compat than the one in openwrt svn, and even then, it 
> does not work that well; it does not oops or panic, which is good 
> though).
>
> I tested it a week ago, maybe something changed till now (WRT to b43).
>
>



More information about the debian-non-standard mailing list