On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Bryan Cruickshank wrote:

<Mega snip> :-) </Mega>

>I really don't have a good grasp of what the difference is between using
>ltsp to boot the iopener vs using ltsp and etherboot to boot a normal
>dc.  I know that we are basically loading a kernal that will support the
>usb nic so that the network booting can take place, but I understood the
>step by step of the etherboot process a lot better.  

The only difference with the I-opener (unless I'm wrong) is skipping the 
etherboot step. Configuring the system to do that has been a problem for 
some, so I have finally done something that I should have done a while 
ago.

I have grabbed images of my I-opener's whole disk and its 4MB partition. I
managed to get bzip2 to stuff each image into 2.3MB. I think that just
using dd to plop the disk image on /dev/hdb will make other I-opener's
work, especially when everything else is setup properly. You can grab the
image at the bottom of http://home.hiwaay.net/~jeffj1/ltsp/

I'm running LTSP v3, and the I-opener has kernel 2.4.9 with the swap over
NFS patch (but I haven't used that). The only reason I can think to
upgrade that software is if it was needed to support a new X server, but I
can't think of everything.

-- 
Jeff Jackowski
        http://ro.com/~jeffj/




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