On Dec 21, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Darrick Hartman (lists) wrote: > Darrick Hartman wrote: >> Lonnie, >> >> There's no way to cat the mbr to the device in OSX? If that's the >> case, >> I'm glad I bought the Dell Laptop and not the Mac one that some other >> people were trying to convince me was "better". hehe. >> >> Philip was working on a script to create the raw runnix.img which >> could >> then be dd'd to a CF same as the astlinux.img files from 0.4. If >> nothing else, I'm sure we could just dd from an existing CF to a >> file. >> >> Darrick >> >> Lonnie Abelbeck wrote: >>> Thanks Darrick for the test images, but... >>> >>> I'm using Mac OS 10.4.11, and I can't get the MBR changed on the >>> runnix FAT16 CF partition. Anyone have any tips? >>> >>> Would it make sense to offer Runnix as a 128M CF image? and then go >>> from there? > > Following up on my own post, I dd'd the image of a fresh runnix setup > from a 1GB cf to a file. I don't keep many small CF cards around. > Only > the first 128MB is used and the file compresses nicely to 3.8MB. I'm > not sure how well it would work if you dd it to a smaller device (I'm > guessing it should actually work since the stuff that matters is at > the > beginning of the device) > > Give it a try and let me know if it works. > > http://www.djhsolutions.com/astlinux/runnix.img.gz > > Darrick
As usual, Darrick saves the day! I did get around the OS X $ cat mbr.bin > /dev/disk2 -bash: /dev/disk2: Resource busy problem, but of course, the "./syslinux" binary isn't going to execute very well on my OS X UNIX box will it. So, I used gracious Darrick's "runnix.img.gz" image, worked like a champ. I was able to get asterisk 1.4 running on my net5501 box, with a keydisk. Question-1: I was not able to get the root password to stick between reboots with a keydisk, is this work to be done? Question-2: What is the benefit of coping the image into a ramdisk for >200MB memory vs using a loopback mount for < 200MB memory? This 'feature' makes my net4801 boxes operate somewhat differently than net5501's do. Kris and Darrick, this is an awesome amount of work you have been doing... Thanks! Lonnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
