On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Florian Fainelli <florian@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Then how would it normally be done? I'm hoping to do this more for the experience than for the final product, if only because there's a chance that the reboot problem is hardware related, and the whole box is fairly useless right now.
Could 2MB hold a full kernel? If I can compile in the right USB drivers, I can put the rootfs on a flash drive in the USB port (this is a printserver, so it has one), right?
Andrew Wiley
Le Tuesday 28 April 2009 13:58:38 Andrew Wiley, vous avez écrit :
> I stumbled onto this website while doing some research on a LinksysSoldering a seria port is not an option if you want to do something serious
> printserver I retired a while back (the firmware kept crashing, but I don't
> think it was a hardware problem), and I'm wondering if it would be possible
> to install Linux on it. It has an ADM5120P, and the hardware seems to be
> supported, but how would I go about installing anything? Is there a serial
> port header that I need to use? Would using it equate to soldering a serial
> port to it?
with it.
Then how would it normally be done? I'm hoping to do this more for the experience than for the final product, if only because there's a chance that the reboot problem is hardware related, and the whole box is fairly useless right now.
That's too small you would need at least 2MB Flash and 8MB RAM.
> Is it even feasible to have a linux system running on 1MB of flash and 4 MB
> of RAM?
Could 2MB hold a full kernel? If I can compile in the right USB drivers, I can put the rootfs on a flash drive in the USB port (this is a printserver, so it has one), right?
Andrew Wiley
