Darrick Hartman (lists) wrote: > Kristian Kielhofner wrote: > >> On 9/19/07, Philip Prindeville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I'm using grub, and as I said, my development (Linux) machine is remote >>> (so I can't burn the flash directly). >>> >>> I'm wondering if I can boot the net5501 box from a FreeDOS CD and then >>> use utilities on that to burn the Flash, or if there's a Linux liveCD I >>> could boot from and use that. >>> >>> Has anyone tried to use the serial port to bootstrap the box via an >>> Xmodem download to flash? >>> >>> -Philip >>> >>> >> Phillip, >> >> Last I checked you wanted to use GRUB... Stay with that and use >> makeimage.sh to make an image that you can transfer off your build >> machine and burn locally. >> > > Only problem is how will he transfer the image to the machine when it is > in a colo (or otherwise not locally accessible). Long-term runnix would > be a better solution as he could get images onto the machine if needed > without local access. In a prior email Phillip stated that he doesn't > have physical access to the box. Installing runnix would only require > him to gain physical access to the box one time. > > Darrick >
Sorry for the confusion: I guess I wasn't clear. I have access to the target box, but physical access to the build box. So if I have to burn a CF, it would either involve booting the net5501 with a LiveCD of Linux and downloading the image and burning the CF there, or else using the monitor on the net5501 to download (via Xmodem from a Windows laptop) the image(s), and then burn them into the CF from the net5501... Not sure how long a download of a 64MB image at 115kb/s would take, however. ;-) Oh, and I could also download via TFTP if the net5501 supports that (don't remember if it does or not from monitor/BIOS). -Philip ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
