Well, I've been reconfigurating this little gizmo.
It was set up as root=hda1 swap=hda2 home=hda3
/home was a 3GB partition, so I basically wiped it,
then I tarballed up everything on hda1 and unpacked
it on hda3 with "tar --same-owner -pxvf ${i}" and
was able to reboot to /dev/hda3 on the original
system.
I am preparing to flash my nvram, so I want the original
distro around, and I also want the latest Debian boot
image, rescue kernel, etc on hda1 in case something
is incompatible afterwards. Right now I have nettrom
2.0.4 with some old 2.0 kernel. I've gotten tftp booting
working but haven't been able to mount a nfs root image
yet on boot.
I'm pretty sure I'll be able to boot the Debian rescue-netwinder.bin
image via tftp if I have a problem, but I might as well get
the rest of the installation system ready to go on hda1.
The stock RedHat 5.2 system is pretty good, but I've been
using Linux for about 10 years now and I just prefer the
more SysV'ish look and feel of Debian for that full
unix experience thing. If I get Debian up and working well
I'll probably wipe /dev/hda3 and break it up into different
partitions.
I hate to lose the old kernel with the nifty Acorn FPE
code. I'm not planning on doing any real heavy math on
the 'winder so faster is better as far as I'm concerned.
I'll definately hang on to some of the sources from the
original image.
Cheers!
B. Douglas Hilton wrote:
> Cute little thing. It is a Netwinder LC. Seems to
> work allright. Of course I don't have the root
> password so I am working on that.
>
> Later!
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