NSLU2 has been unslung
I’ve purchased a new NSLU2 and installed Unslung 3.x. A couple of notes:
- The instuctions are excellent. Follow them exactly and the operation is a cake walk.
- Unslinging an NSLU2 (“slug”) requires a real hard drive — a flash drive does not work. Or, it does not work with the amount of tinkering I was willing to perform.
- Install OpenSSH as described before the final reboot, while you are still logged in to telnet. Otherwise you have to unplug the drives reboot (again) to regain telnet access.
- Mac OSX does not have arping installed by default (and it’s not a package on fink), so accessing RedBoot is a really frustrating matter of exact timing. (It does appear to be available through OpenDarwin’s Darwin Ports project.)
Installing a Java JVM was simple too, thanks to these instructions, but JamVM does not run Jetty out of the box, so I’ll investigate running Tomcat and Resin next. If necesary, I will then compile Kaffe on the slug and try all of the containers again.
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Hi David,
Hmmm… JamVM used to be able to run Jetty out of the box. Could you let me know what problems you’re seeing?
Thanks,
Rob.
Rob Lougher
April 8, 2005 at 10:45 am
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