I'm very interested in this discussion as well. My team is in the process of testing a solution on a 7553. We only have a few units in the field so far, but no issues to report yet. More units will be going out over the next month.
One additional question I have is if there is any way to automate the process of changing the boot command, or if TS could ship us boards pre-configured for sdroot. We'd like to make the production process as streamlined and simple as possible...
Neal
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:37 PM, parkranger_dan <> wrote:
Hey guys. I posted awhile back when having some functionality issues with a TS-7200 and realized the 7553 was really the platform I should have been working with from the get-go.
Sweet little box this 7553. I've gotten all my software ported over and it's working perfect. After only a couple weeks with it, I think I'm ready for deployment.
We'll be preparing quite a few of these little guys. Having the ability to insert a pre-imaged MicroSD, set one jumper, and run one command (rm linuxrc; ln -sf /linuxrc-sdroot /linuxrc; save) to change the boot is very attractive in terms of quick deployment, and easy field upgrade (send customer a new MicroSD card, done!).
One question I had was in regard to the longevity of these little MicroSD cards, and their resilience to repeated power loss.
Customers will not have the ability to shutdown nicely, power will always be removed to turn off. I based my image from the latest.dd image available from the Technologic website, which if I remember correctly is formatted ext3.
Has anyone had any experience with a similar setup? How are the boxes holding up, and have the MicroSD cards been lasting?
I've been also pondering making use of the xnand drive with a custom busybox that includes the compiled apps i need and just script the flashing process to ease prep/deployment. I know bootup time would be significantly better than my current 1 minute timeframe, and resilience would be better. Downside would be that I lose the ability to do remote software updates. Anyway, I have yet to break ground on that idea, or even wrap my brain around how that's done.
Thanks!
Dan
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