On Mar 25, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Kevin Kiely wrote:
> OK, I get the idea for the boot loader.  I followed the  
> instructions for the
> 'quick' install with dd but I don't see the partition created.  Am  
> I missing
> something?  I have tried removing and reinserting the CF card.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] darrick]#
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] darrick]# dd if=runnix-serial.img.gz of=/dev/sdd
> 7138+1 records in
> 7138+1 records out
> 3654664 bytes (3.7 MB) copied, 2.73597 seconds, 1.3 MB/s
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] darrick]# fdisk -l /dev/sdd
>
> Disk /dev/sdd: 512 MB, 512483328 bytes
> 16 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1009 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 992 * 512 = 507904 bytes
>
> Disk /dev/sdd doesn't contain a valid partition table
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] darrick]#

Kevin,

The runnix image fine is "gz" compressed, so do something like:

$ gzcat runnix-serial.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdd bs=16k

or if you don't have gzcat...

$ gunzip -c runnix-serial.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdd bs=16k

Lonnie


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