From fauno at kiwwwi.com.ar Tue Jan 3 13:00:49 2012 From: fauno at kiwwwi.com.ar (=?utf-8?Q?Nicol=C3=A1s?= Reynolds) Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:00:49 -0300 Subject: [Mipsel] reminder for udev update Message-ID: <87boqlaqke.fsf@kiwwwi.com.ar> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=blob_plain;f=README -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 489 bytes Desc: not available URL: From fauno at kiwwwi.com.ar Thu Jan 5 02:39:55 2012 From: fauno at kiwwwi.com.ar (=?utf-8?Q?Nicol=C3=A1s?= Reynolds) Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:39:55 -0300 Subject: [Mipsel] [Daniel Clark] [loongson-dev] Selecting an operating system for your new Lemote Yeeloong Message-ID: <87d3ay98jo.fsf@kiwwwi.com.ar> An embedded message was scrubbed... From: unknown sender Subject: no subject Date: no date Size: 385 URL: -------------- next part -------------- Just wrote this up as a draft of the main options for operating systems on the Yeeloong. Would be interested in feedback, also thought it might be useful to others. (Note that this list purposefully only includes distributions that are easy for English-only speakers to install/use.) Also, anyone know if there is documentation for the yeeloong "tab rescue" (re)installation mechanism? *Selecting an operating system for your new Lemote Yeeloong* In most cases your laptop is shipped as-is from the factory in China. You may not want to use the pre-installed operating system. This document goes over most of the options that are relatively easy for non-developers to install and use. Unless otherwise noted, all of the below instructions require a USB key formatted with the ext2 file system. 1. *Rescue Media* It is useful to have a USB key you can boot from if something goes wrong. Download http://dev.lemote.com/files/resource/download/rescue/rescue-yland put that file on the base directory of a USB key. Insert the USB key in your Yeeloong. Turn on the Yeeloong and press the ?Del? key to get to the PMON 2000 (BSD licensed boot firmware, called BIOS on x86 systems) command line. Load it via usb from the PMON command line: load /dev/fs/ext2 at usb0/rescue-yl g console=tty root=/dev/sda1 rootdelay=8 You have now a working rescue system with Busybox. 2. *Parabola GNU/Linux* Due to being on the GNU free distributions list - http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html - this is the operating system currently recommended for use on the Lemote Yeeloong by Freedom Included. Install instructions are available from https://wiki.parabolagnulinux.org/MIPS_Installation You will need to have another operating system running before installing Parabola. Due to the gNewSense installer being broken, it is probably easiest to do the install with Rescue Media (see above) or the Chinese variant of Debian GNU/Linux (see below). Freedom Included, Inc. donated Yeeloongs to some Parabolla developers to help make this port possible. 3. *Gentoo GNU/Linux* Gentoo is probably the fastest current distribution. Freedom Included also helped this project; we hope the work will eventually be ported over to the fully free Ututo variant of Gentoo. The Gentoo handbooks - http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/ - explain how to do the install. All stages are available in the experimental/mips/stages/ directory of Gentoo mirrors, for example http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/mips/stages/ You can track up-to-the-minute work at the git repository - http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/loongson.git;a=summary 4. *Debian GNU/Linux* (BJLX / Chinese variant) This section describes how to install Debian modified for the Yeeloong by the Beijing Loongson & Debian Users Club. Note that mainline Debian is working on supporting the Yeeloong / Loongson at this point, but as of January 2012 this Chinese distribution seems to be much easier to install and to work better. The (slight) Debian variant at http://www.anheng.com.cn/loongson/install/uses the Yeeloong's built-in tab recovery mode to install - so you just put a USB key in your Yeeloong with the latest vmlinux and .lzma files and press tab at bootup when prompted, and then answer some questions. Note that after the install you'll need to take a few minutes to change the default language from Chinese to your native language. :-) Here is an example of the full install process; you'll want to visit the web site to make sure that the 2011-10-10 image is still the most recent install image before you do your install. We recommend the LXDE image as it uses substantially fewer computing resources than Gnome. wget \ http://www.anheng.com.cn/loongson/install/loongson2_debian6_lxde_20111010.tar.lzma wget \ http://www.anheng.com.cn/loongson/install/vmlinux (become root) Format a USB stick with the ext2 file system and copy the vmlinux and .lzma file(s) over to it, and then safely remove it from the computer. Insert the USB stick into the Yeeloong and turn on the Yeeloong. In reply to prompts do: ?Press Tab to recover? -> press Tab ?Press U to USB recover? -> press U ?Press C to continue? -> press C ?Press Y to recover? -> press Y And then answer the questions you are asked. After the install is done press ?Enter?, machine should power off. After that, power the machine back on. After a short wait you'll be on the LXDE main screen, but most things will be in Chinese. To change to English, a. Open the LXDE main menu by clicking on the icon on the lower left-hand side of the screen b. Select the 4th item from the bottom with the right angle and scissors icon c. Select the option second from the top named ?LX? with the icon of a computer monitor next to it. A terminal window should open. Type ?sudo -i? to become root; now would be a good time to do ?passwd? to change your root password, so you can recover more easily should anything go wrong. Do ?dpkg-reonfigure locales? and deselect all of the options starting with ?zh_? and choose ?Ok?. When prompted to choose a default locale on the next screen, choose ?en_US.UTF-8?. Now do ?shutdown -r now? - after your system reboots, everything should be in English. Note you may need to press Fn-F5 in order to turn on wifi and then wait a few seconds before wifi / the network-manager tray icon will work. 5. *OpenBSD* If you prefer *BSD operating systems, take a look at http://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html 6. *NixOS GNU/Linux* There is a version of the NixOS - http://nixos.org/nixos/ - that works on the Lemote Fuloong mini-pc, a computer that uses the same processor as the Lemote Yeeloong netbook. (Freedom Included donated Fuloongs to the NixOS development team when it looked like we'd be able to sell them in bulk in the US, which turned out not to be the case.) If you want a project and are an experienced GNU/Linux developer, you could get it running on the Yeeloong if you'd like to spend some time. See http://nixos.org/wiki/Multiplatform_NixOS and the NixOS mailing list archives. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "loongson-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to loongson-dev at googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to loongson-dev+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/loongson-dev?hl=en. From fauno at kiwwwi.com.ar Thu Jan 5 16:05:16 2012 From: fauno at kiwwwi.com.ar (=?utf-8?Q?Nicol=C3=A1s?= Reynolds) Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:05:16 -0300 Subject: [Mipsel] iceweasel-libre available Message-ID: <87r4ze6soz.fsf@kiwwwi.com.ar> it built at first try in 7hs :) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 489 bytes Desc: not available URL: From joe at t67.eu Fri Jan 6 19:22:27 2012 From: joe at t67.eu (Joseph Graham) Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:22:27 +0000 Subject: [Mipsel] Asking for support for a Parabola GNU/Linux-libre mipsel port In-Reply-To: <87pqew68h6.fsf@kiwwwi.com.ar> (=?utf-8?Q?=22Nicol=C3=A1s?= Reynolds"'s message of "Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:34:13 -0300") References: <20111028043358.GO2011@ponape.bal> <20111028131518.GP2011@ponape.bal> <20111206202950.GT2011@ponape.bal> <877h156n3p.fsf@kiwwwi.com.ar> <87pqew68h6.fsf@kiwwwi.com.ar> Message-ID: <87r4zcab64.fsf@yeeloong.t67.eu> Nicol?s Reynolds writes: > On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 09:19:50 -0500, Daniel Clark wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Nicol?s Reynolds wrote: >> >> > On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 23:43:09 -0500, Daniel Clark wrote: >> > > >> > > >> > > Could people who like their setup feed me their package lists, either >> > here >> > > or on the discussion page on the wiki? >> > > >> > > It looks like this pipeline will do it: >> > > >> > > comm -23 <(pacman -Qeq|sort) <(pacman -Qmq|sort) > pkglist >> > > >> > > Thanks, >> > > -Danny >> > >> > we can feed you all the currently available packages from our repos :) >> > >> >> Does pacman have an "install all available packages" option, or is there a >> way to do that with a pipeline? >> >> -Danny, a recovering Debian user ;-) > > haha, it's `pacman -Sl` to list all available packages, add -q for > package names only and repo names to filter by them. > > to install them you should feed -Sql to -S, something like > > pacman -S $(pacman -Sql) > > do you want to install everything or just download? you can use rsync to > our repos. > _______________________________________________ > Mipsel mailing list > Mipsel at lists.parabolagnulinux.org > http://lists.parabolagnulinux.org/mailman/listinfo/mipsel I think it's better to install one by one with reference to the Parabola wiki and Arch wiki. Because some things need configuration. From dclark at pobox.com Fri Jan 6 14:50:42 2012 From: dclark at pobox.com (Daniel Clark) Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:50:42 -0000 Subject: [Mipsel] Asking for support for a Parabola GNU/Linux-libre mipsel port In-Reply-To: <877h156n3p.fsf@kiwwwi.com.ar> References: <20111028043358.GO2011@ponape.bal> <20111028131518.GP2011@ponape.bal> <20111206202950.GT2011@ponape.bal> <877h156n3p.fsf@kiwwwi.com.ar> Message-ID: On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Nicol?s Reynolds wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 23:43:09 -0500, Daniel Clark wrote: > > > > > > Could people who like their setup feed me their package lists, either > here > > or on the discussion page on the wiki? > > > > It looks like this pipeline will do it: > > > > comm -23 <(pacman -Qeq|sort) <(pacman -Qmq|sort) > pkglist > > > > Thanks, > > -Danny > > we can feed you all the currently available packages from our repos :) > Does pacman have an "install all available packages" option, or is there a way to do that with a pipeline? -Danny, a recovering Debian user ;-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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