That did the trick:
gunzip -c astlinux-0.6.1-net5501.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdb bs=16k
And then it took me a little time to figure out how to setup the rest
of the CF as a partition for UnionFS. I guess I should put my notes
into a cookbook form for the next person to use.
Now it will be down
It happens. It took me a while to work it out as well.
The image you want is
http://www.djhsolutions.com/astlinux/astlinux-0.6.1-net5501.img.gz.
This *includes* runnix and is designed to be written to a CF card. The
ISO image is designed as a bootable CDROM, which isn't what you want.
Once
Feeling like a total newbie on this...
Following the instructions on http://www.astlinux.org/node/28 I looked
at http://www.djhsolutions.com/astlinux for a runnix-serial.img.gz to
use on my Net5501. I don't see one under the main directory but do
under a directory named obsolete. Using the
