[lug] NSLU2 notes

[Bear Giles]

I'm running Debian on the NSLU2 ('slug') and tried sending mail to the 
list from it.  Mail to myself works,... maybe it's an issue with return 
address?

Anyway, some notes are up at http://coyotesong.com/nslu2/detail1.html

I can boot from flashed system or directly from disk.  I don't know how 
long the latter takes -- the Debian packages don't have a way of 
changing the LEDs so it looks like an error condition with cycling 
yellow-red indicators.

Postfix installed, and can send mail to myself (via my mail host) at least..

Postgresql installed, database created and accessed.

At this point (and assuming that there isn't a critical problem booting 
from disk) my initial impression is that a competent sysadmin can get a 
working system from scratch over a weekend.  The biggest time sink is 
finding the necessary information -- wikis are convenient but the 
information tends to be scattered and the authors assume you know more 
than you do.

After the framework is in place (you have a flash image and installer, 
you have a tarball of an initialized system) it'll probably be no more 
than two hours from original packaging to a system comparable to a new 
virtual server at Tummy.  Much less if you're doing it often enough to 
work out clean procedures.