Darrick Hartman wrote: > I'm just uploading some new images to my website. Some of these are the > regular 'runnix' files where the tar ball contains the appropriate > astlinux-XXX.run, run.conf etc files and some are complete images that > you can simply dd to a new CF. The complete images have a naming > convention of cf-0.6-XXXX-ARCH.img.gz > > SO, if you are starting out fresh and do not have a CF prepared with > runnix, do the following: > > 1). Download the cf-0.6-XXXX-ARCH.img.gz file > 2). gunzip the file so you are left with a cf-0.6-XXXX-ARCH.img file > 3). Using dd on Linux (or *BSD) or physdiskwrite on Windows transfer > the files to your CF card. These images will write a 128MB vfat > partition containing everything you need to boot up to astlinux. > > 4). Insert the CF into your target device and boot. > 5). After booting, login as root (pass astlinux). > 6). Create a new partition for unionfs (fdisk /dev/hdX, n, p, 2 ...) > 7). Type "sync" which should allow the new partition to be seen. If > not, reboot, relogin then continue with 8. > 8). Run 'genunion /dev/hdX2' which will create the file system, copy > files and set the file system label to ASTURW for that partition. > 9). Reboot and enjoy your system. > > If you already have your CF setup, you'll want to continue downloading > the astlinux-0.6-XXXX-ARCH.tar.gz files, expanding those and copying the > files to the 'os' directory. > > I've tested the net5501 files. The others should work as well. > > You can find these files here: > > http://www.djhsolutions.com/astlinux > > Darrick >
If you have limited DRAM (like I do on my 256MB net5501) and you're not decompressing the entire image to ramdisk, but rather keeping the compressed file mounted and reading it on demand, then you'll need to do the following: mount -o remount,rw /oldroot/cdrom pushd /oldroot/cdrom mv os os.old popd mount -o remount,ro /oldroot/cdrom first... otherwise, the image in your "os" directory will be "busy" when you try to untar the new image. Reboot, remount the filesystem as writable (as above), and "rm -rf /oldroot/cdrom/os.old" when you're sure the new image is working satisfactorily. Make sure your partition is big enough for at least two compressed images (i.e. 96MB or bigger). -Philip ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
