Hi all and Dear John, Thank you for your answer. After having read the recommendation to use the net 5501-image in some forum, I believed and never tried anything else. However, since it did not work, I did try the standard geni586-image which works now. However, I have read that the net 5501 is optimized for (less read/write cycles on) cf-cards. Is the same true for geni586?
However, first impression is a great one; it's really fun building my first pbx! Especially because the small astlinux supports my FritzCard out of the box! Great! Cheers bye! Jan John Novack wrote: > I guess the first question would be - which image did you install on > the CF card? > > I have an ALIX 1D and am really not impressed. > I have much more experience using the HP thin clients > That said, I believe there are images that support a serial console, > and other that use the VGA as the console. > Are you sure you are looking at the right console port?? > > I had a working CF card working on a thin client, moved it to ALIX 1D > and all booted and worked. > I was not impressed with the quality of the ALIX vga port,couldn't > boot the box with Damn Small Linux at all, which I have used quite > often to prepare CF cards on HP thin clients, and found it much more > costly than the HP thin clients often available on eBay. Many simply > need a larger flash memory to hold AstLinux, and for lightweight duty > even the 128 Meg Ram models do well. > > Another inexperienced opinion. > Worth what you paid for it. > > John Novack > > John Novack > > > Jan Voß wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> After checking other distris, I am rather sure that astlinux seems to >> fit my needs best; these needs are >> >> * ALIX 1 board >> * AVM FritzCard >> for private use, only >> >> ... so a small, fast, inexpensive embedded system. >> >> I installed other distris successfully, but - as I said - I was not >> convinced that they are too good for my needs. >> >> The problem I have is the following: >> >> After "dd"-ing the image to my CF-card, and powering my board, alix is >> satisfied and says "Uncompressing Linux... OK, booting the kernel" once, >> and after a while it jumps to the first line on the screen and says it >> again. And yes, I waited long enough (actually I initiated it at around >> midnight and at 9 this morning there was still no other result). >> >> I tried to disable (close to ALL) things in the bios; especially ACPI. I >> tried to boot without FritzCard first, ... nothing works. Can anyone >> help me? I do WANT astlinux, cause I believe it rocks and you out there >> are doing a fantastic job! :-D >> >> Cheers, have a "Good Friday" and hope to hear from you! >> >> Jan >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: >> High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. >> Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com >> _______________________________________________ >> 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]. >> >> > > -- > Dog is my co-pilot > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. > Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ 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].
