From: Jesus arteche on
hello,

I have afonera 2.0n, with openwrt and the chip rt3052 from ralink, and I
like to install debian instead openwrt, someone know if it could be posible
and howto do?

thanks
From: Stan Hoeppner on
Jesus arteche put forth on 2/10/2010 10:44 AM:
> hello,
>
> I have afonera 2.0n, with openwrt and the chip rt3052 from ralink, and I
> like to install debian instead openwrt, someone know if it could be posible
> and howto do?

The rt3052 uses the MIPs instruction set, so if it is possible to run Debian on
that device, this is the first place to start researching:

http://www.debian.org/ports/mips/

Your biggest obstacle is getting the Linux kernel to boot on that router device.
Thus, you may want to ask around on embedded linux fora to see if anyone is
getting _any_ Linux distro to boot on it.

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Stan


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From: Stefan Monnier on
> I have afonera 2.0n, with openwrt and the chip rt3052 from ralink, and
> I like to install debian instead openwrt, someone know if it could be
> posible and howto do?

Not sure, but I can't think of any reason why not.
The way I'd recommend you do it:
- install Debian via deboostrap on some partition on an external disk.
- try it out via chroot.
- once it seems to be working, let OpenWRT's firmware use that partition
as its root-fs (ask for "rootfs on usb" on the openwrt mailing-list).


-- Stefan


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