Lonnie Abelbeck wrote: > 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.
Glad it worked! I'll get one posted that directs the output to the console and one that uses the serial port. > 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? This is where unionfs comes into play. While there are still some quirks, you can have persistent passwords by creating an additional partition on your storage device and adding a variable to the XX.run.conf file. The variable is asturw=/dev/partX where partX is the partition for unionfs read-write storage. I have this documented on the http://www.astlinux.org web page. > 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. The big benefit is being able to remove the image that you currently are using and add a new image. If the image is still mounted, you can't do that. Otherwise, the benefit is really minimal. You can still force the image to stay in loopback mode by adding a noram flag to the XX.run.conf file. > Kris and Darrick, this is an awesome amount of work you have been > doing... Thanks! We do what we can do. We really could use some additional help with documentation on the astlinux website as well as improvements to the web gui. Someone suggested that we might want to make some settings (such as network setup) available through an easy to navigate interface rather than forcing people to edit a text file directly. Any takers? Darrick -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
