Arjan,
Thanks for your help.
Is there somewhere that this kind of thing is documented?
Cheers,
Jim
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Jim Carroll wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've been playing with the Moblin 2.0 Beta for a couple of days. I
>> built the sample application (with some modifications) and wanted to run
>> it under Moblin, rather than my Ubuntu development machine.
>>
>> I copied the target binary onto a USB pen drive to test on my
>> netbook (Dell Inspiron Mini 10) running Moblin. This seemed a little
>> unwieldy, and I noticed that there were instructions for using scp to
>> copy to the target.
>>
>> The scp command (which I'm not familiar with) seemed to depend on an
>> IP address for the target hardware. However, when I tried to execute
>> "ifconfig -a" in order to get my IP address, it failed. It seems that
>> ifconfig is not a part of the Moblin image.
>>
>> Is this deliberate? If so, why? It seems like a serious omission. Or
>> maybe, I'm just doing something wrong, I'm no Linux expert........
>>
> the ifconfig command resides in the /sbin directory, since this commonly
> is an administrative command, not for non-administrative users.
>
> Also, by default we do not ship/enable the ssh server, needed for scp,
> so you may need to yum install that.
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