-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert Lewko wrote: > I am having second thoughts about running the 7260 from a SDcard. You > get everything that I wanted by running it from a NFS root. My original > motivation for running the card off a SDcard was that if I had my laptop > on someone else's network then I would constantly be reconfiguring the > board to adjust the new network. I am, right now learning how to run > DHCP from my laptop to issue addresses on an network address on an > obscure network address ( 172.28.1.0/255.255.0.0 > <http://172.28.1.0/255.255.0.0>) with two network addresses bound to my > ethernet NIC. With that I will be able to plug into anyone's hub and be > able to have the 7260 NFS mount my laptop.
I have a serious dislike of NFS. In any case, for this to be useful to me, the thing has to be self contained. > There are two reasons not to run the board from the SD card. First, by > choosing the SD card option is mutually exclusive with the XDIO, which Not important to me. At least not yet. > is really useful in embedded work. Secondly, the to run get the board > to boot from the SD card you have to modify the boot ROM, which > eliminates the RedBoot system. With RedBoot gone you have to do the > same things you have to modify an initrd that gets installed to the SD > card. That sucks. From the product details it looks like booting from the SD card is something that will happen "in the near future". At least it will boot from a USB flash drive (at least it looks like it can). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG/A7FwRXgH3rKGfMRAgiuAJ9sNTRUR7P5KrkuADQvm6uoXtcBkQCbBjD9 7Fc/32Mzx/U0VOTerei3gJQ= =dBge -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
