Hi, Joe, On Oct 9, 2013, at 6:02 AM, Kujawski, Joseph wrote:
> When you state that I need to have Ruby and RubyGems installed, do you mean > that I need to have them installed on the ROACH2 board? Well, you could run adc16_init.rb on the ROACH2 itself if ruby (and rubygems) were installed there, but typically one would install ruby (and rubygems) on a computer on the same subnet as the ROACH2. > If so, given that I am currently using the ROACH2 board in soloboot mode, how > do I permanently install Ruby so that it will be available when the ROACH2 > board is powered on? Not needed, but read on. > If Ruby can not be used in soloboot mode, what is the recommended boot mode > to allow me to use soloboot and where is the reference for configuring the > ROACH2 to boot in this mode? If you can get the bof files (or the compressed bof.gz files) onto the soloboot ROACH2 file system, then you can continue to run in soloboot mode (and use adc16_init.rb from another computer on the same subnet). If you can't (or don't want to) do that, then I would recommend setting up the ROACH2 to netboot. A good place to start that process is this CASPER mailing list thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03918.html Once you get it setup, netboot is very convenient. I think netboot is essential if you have more than one ROACH or ROACH2, but even for just one board it makes things more pleasant since you can copy the bof file directly to the NFS server instead of to the ROACH and you have a "real" Linux distribution instead of busybox. It would be great of someone made a virtual box image that could serve as a generic ROACH/ROACH2 netboot server. Dave
