At 15:40 23/01/2008 +0100, tosh_hamburg wrote:
>I had a look at the documentation available at astlinux.org and I searched
>the mailing list but for whatever reason I'm not able to get the system up
>and running using runnix.
If that's any help, here are the steps I take to copy a new Astlinux distro
onto a CF card:
1. Use fdisk /dev/sdd to delete any existing partition (change /dev/sdd
to match your CF card)
2. Create a new, 128MB FAT16 filesystem. This new boot partition will
contain the runnix bootloader and the
Astlinux image(s)
3. fdisk -l : Verify that your filesystem Id is 6 and the System is FAT16
and that the first partition is
bootable.
4. Using the remaining space on the CF card, you can create a second,
Linux partition to hold your data. This
partition will act as the keydisk where AstLinux saves configuration
files that you can modify
5. Format the first partition with mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/sdd1
6. Download Runnix. Extract the files into a temporary location on your
development system's hard drive
7. cd runnix-<version> ; ./syslinux /dev/sdd1 ; cat mbr.bin > /dev/sdd
8. Mount the CF card: mkdir /mnt/cf ; mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/cf
9. Copy the runnix files to the CF drive: mount -t vfat /dev/sdd1 /mnt/cf
; cp -R rootfs_vfat/* /mnt/cf
10. Take a look : ls -alh /mnt/cf . runnix is the kernel, runnix.img is the
initrd file, syslinux.cfg defines how
runnix starts, and /os is the directory where your target operating
system images go.
11. At a minimum you'll need an <image>.run file and the associated
<image>.run.sha1 file which will be
used to validate the image: cd astlinux-trunk/astlinux-trunk-1540 ; cp
* /mnt/cf/os
12. Edit /os/astlinux-trunk-1540.run.conf ("Kernel command line"),
/os/default.conf and /syslinux.cf
13. Boot with the CF card, and aim at https://astlinux_ip/
HTH,
F.
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