rootfs for vr4181a

rootfs for vr4181a

[Julian Scheel]

Hey all,

I am searching for a rootfs which can be used with a NEC VR4181A and can be 
mounted over NFS (shouldn't need any special things, should it?)
Has someone such a rootfs - or can give me a link where to find it - or a link 
to a description how to do it myself?

-- 
Grüße,
Julian

Re: rootfs for vr4181a

[Guido Guenther]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 02:28:48PM +0200, Julian Scheel wrote:
> I am searching for a rootfs which can be used with a NEC VR4181A and can be 
> mounted over NFS (shouldn't need any special things, should it?)
> Has someone such a rootfs - or can give me a link where to find it - or a link 
> to a description how to do it myself?
You can try for mips:
http://debian.physik.uni-konstanz.de/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-mips/3.0.23-2002-05-21/root.tar.gz
or for mipsel:
http://debian.physik.uni-konstanz.de/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-mipsel/3.0.23-2002-05-21/root.tar.gz
(or any other debian mirror) for a rather minimal rootfs. You can build
a more complete nfs-root by following the steps in the installer.
Regards,
 -- Guido

Re: rootfs for vr4181a

[smills_ho]

Hi Julian,
    What kernel version do you use? 2.4.2 or higher ?
Can it work about ramdisk ?

Regards,

Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Scheel" <julian@jusst.de>
To: <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 8:28 PM
Subject: rootfs for vr4181a


> Hey all,
>
> I am searching for a rootfs which can be used with a NEC VR4181A and can
be
> mounted over NFS (shouldn't need any special things, should it?)
> Has someone such a rootfs - or can give me a link where to find it - or a
link
> to a description how to do it myself?
>
> --
> Grüße,
> Julian
>

Re: rootfs for vr4181a

[smills_ho]

Hi Julian,
    What kernel version do you use? 2.4.2 or higher ?
Can it work about ramdisk ?

Regards,

Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Scheel" <julian@jusst.de>
To: <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 8:28 PM
Subject: rootfs for vr4181a


> Hey all,
>
> I am searching for a rootfs which can be used with a NEC VR4181A and can
be
> mounted over NFS (shouldn't need any special things, should it?)
> Has someone such a rootfs - or can give me a link where to find it - or a
link
> to a description how to do it myself?
>
> --
> Grüße,
> Julian
>

Re: rootfs for vr4181a

[Ralf Baechle]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 03:43:48PM +0800, smills_ho wrote:

> Hi Julian,
>     What kernel version do you use? 2.4.2 or higher ?
> Can it work about ramdisk ?

I really hope nobody is using 2.4.2 anymore.  This kernel is by now quite
a bit over 2 years old and the number of bug fixes in the generic and
MIPS-specific code is so large that I refuse to enumerate them ...

  Ralf

Re: rootfs for vr4181a

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 03:43:48PM +0800, smills_ho wrote:
> >     What kernel version do you use? 2.4.2 or higher ?
> > Can it work about ramdisk ?
> 
> I really hope nobody is using 2.4.2 anymore.  This kernel is by now quite
> a bit over 2 years old and the number of bug fixes in the generic and
> MIPS-specific code is so large that I refuse to enumerate them ...

So any plans to upgrade Linux/MIPS CVS to 2.4.21 (and beyond)? ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds

Re: rootfs for vr4181a

[Ralf Baechle]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 05:37:52PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 03:43:48PM +0800, smills_ho wrote:
> > >     What kernel version do you use? 2.4.2 or higher ?
> > > Can it work about ramdisk ?
> > 
> > I really hope nobody is using 2.4.2 anymore.  This kernel is by now quite
> > a bit over 2 years old and the number of bug fixes in the generic and
> > MIPS-specific code is so large that I refuse to enumerate them ...
> 
> So any plans to upgrade Linux/MIPS CVS to 2.4.21 (and beyond)? ;-)

Sure :-)

  Ralf

Re: rootfs for vr4181a

[Ralf Baechle]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 05:37:52PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> > I really hope nobody is using 2.4.2 anymore.  This kernel is by now quite
> > a bit over 2 years old and the number of bug fixes in the generic and
> > MIPS-specific code is so large that I refuse to enumerate them ...
> 
> So any plans to upgrade Linux/MIPS CVS to 2.4.21 (and beyond)? ;-)

Question answered?  :-)

  Ralf

Re: rootfs for vr4181a

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 05:37:52PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > I really hope nobody is using 2.4.2 anymore.  This kernel is by now quite
> > > a bit over 2 years old and the number of bug fixes in the generic and
> > > MIPS-specific code is so large that I refuse to enumerate them ...
> > 
> > So any plans to upgrade Linux/MIPS CVS to 2.4.21 (and beyond)? ;-)
> 
> Question answered?  :-)

Yes, thanks a lot!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds

Re: rootfs for vr4181a

[Ralf Baechle]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 11:50:36AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> > > So any plans to upgrade Linux/MIPS CVS to 2.4.21 (and beyond)? ;-)
> > 
> > Question answered?  :-)
> 
> Yes, thanks a lot!

For those who aren't subscribed to linux-cvs - I've commited the update
to the 2.4.21 release version last night.

  Ralf