Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of Internal/Soekris

Timestamp:

Sep 20, 2006, 7:26:47 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

Joseph F. Miklojcik III

Comment:

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Internal/Soekris

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 http://soekris.com/Manuals/net4801_manual.pdf
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-== boot infrastructure ==
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-The netboot image for debian is already around.  You need
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-wget http://centerclick.org/net4801/pxelinux/pxelinux.0.gz
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-as opposed to the pxelinux.bin that's already around.  You need to make a link in pxelinux.cfg to an appropriate pxelinux configuration file, namely the one for serial.  To the end of the 'install' image you want to add:
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-DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text
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-(we did this, so it's probably already there.)
 
 Minicom should be set for 9600 baud, 8 databits, no parity, 1 stop bit, no flow control.  Turn hardware flow control off in minicom.  The UNIX device for talking to the console is almost certainly /dev/ttyS0.
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 boot f0
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+== net install ==
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+The netboot image for debian is already around.  You need
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+wget http://centerclick.org/net4801/pxelinux/pxelinux.0.gz
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+as opposed to the pxelinux.bin that's already around.  You need to make a link in pxelinux.cfg to an appropriate pxelinux configuration file, namely the one for serial.  To the end of the 'install' image you want to add:
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+DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text
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+(we did this, so it's probably already there.)
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+We tried this in several different ways with a remarkable number of pre-compiled pxelinux.0 files, but the net install could never find the CF disk.  Eventually we gave up and moved to pre-loading the CF.
 
 == Voyage Linux ==