Hi

Is it possible to use a normal distro like Debian or Gentoo with the WL-HDD? In essence I would like to load the kernel from flash and have everything else running from the hdd. This would mean that I could use a distro (the layout of olegs firmware is somewhat confusing) I know and I wouldn't have to go through the flashfs-thing on every damn change. If nothing else, it should be possible to install a distro and chrooting into it (similar to booting from a cd and chrooting to save a partition).

So... Can anyone help?

Regards
Rumagent

I really like the approach given in http://wpkg.org/index.php/Running_Debian_on_ASUS_WL-500G_deluxe , as it isn't based on chrooting. However, I seem to recall that the 4710 doesn't play very well with the 2.6 kernel. Is this still true?

As for speed. Shouldn't it be more or less identical if I create a minimal kernel and simply run the system of the hard drive?

Regards
Rumagent

Ah well... I'll give it a shot with the 2.4 kernel then. If nothing else, it should make for a fun weekend. (god I am a sad person:) ).

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Rumagent