Re: [Astlinux-users] Problems getting started

2008-12-24 Thread Phil McKerracher
Got it running - not sure what the problem was, but it's holding its config now. The new interface is awesome! Thanks to everyone who helped (including all the contributors, of course). I'll make another donation when it's in service. By the way, the company I work for (Symbian) is opening up its

Re: [Astlinux-users] Problems getting started

2008-12-24 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
On Dec 24, 2008, at 7:08 AM, Darrick Hartman wrote: > Phil McKerracher wrote: >> I never did get physdiskwrite to work properly in Vista, even after >> disabling UAC, setting win2k compatibility mode, running as >> administrator, >> using the -u option etc. It sometimes produced a card that app

Re: [Astlinux-users] Problems getting started

2008-12-24 Thread Darrick Hartman
Phil McKerracher wrote: >> I'm a little skeptical about this... the "dd" is known to blow away the >> formatting and partitioning of your disk... > > What I found was that DD appeared to complete, but with the symptoms I > described before - the 4801 would boot but not all the way. When I tried >

Re: [Astlinux-users] Problems getting started

2008-12-24 Thread Phil McKerracher
> I'm a little skeptical about this... the "dd" is known to blow away the > formatting and partitioning of your disk... What I found was that DD appeared to complete, but with the symptoms I described before - the 4801 would boot but not all the way. When I tried formatting the second partition

Re: [Astlinux-users] Problems getting started

2008-12-23 Thread Philip A. Prindeville
Phil McKerracher wrote: > Yay! I got it to boot! I have my Christmas present. :-) > > I had to jump through all sorts of hoops, which I will document later - > basically, clean and reformat the CF card in windows, THEN clean and > reformat it in Ubuntu, run DD, create and format the secondary parti

Re: [Astlinux-users] Problems getting started

2008-12-23 Thread Phil McKerracher
Yay! I got it to boot! I have my Christmas present. :-) I had to jump through all sorts of hoops, which I will document later - basically, clean and reformat the CF card in windows, THEN clean and reformat it in Ubuntu, run DD, create and format the secondary partition in Ubuntu then run genunion

Re: [Astlinux-users] Problems getting started

2008-12-23 Thread Phil McKerracher
> Hmmm... There are a few different versions of physdiskwrite.exe floating > around out there... Make sure you get the right one... I got it recently from the m0n0wall site - I'll see if I can find some others to try, but just using Ubuntu is probably the answer. I'm intending to write all this up

Re: [Astlinux-users] Problems getting started

2008-12-22 Thread Philip A. Prindeville
Phil McKerracher wrote: > Many thanks for your suggestions, Philip. > > >> Try right-clicking on physdiskwrite.exe and setting the compatibility >> mode to XP+SP3 (or just plain XP)... >> > > That didn't help (nor did Win2000 mode etc). In fact, I can find no way at > all of formatting the

Re: [Astlinux-users] Problems getting started

2008-12-22 Thread Phil McKerracher
Many thanks for your suggestions, Philip. > Try right-clicking on physdiskwrite.exe and setting the compatibility > mode to XP+SP3 (or just plain XP)... That didn't help (nor did Win2000 mode etc). In fact, I can find no way at all of formatting the blank partition in Vista, even using diskpart -

Re: [Astlinux-users] Problems getting started

2008-12-21 Thread Philip A. Prindeville
Phil McKerracher wrote: > Hi, I'm back - some of you with long memories may recall that I tried > to get started with astlinux two years ago and gave up. (I couldn't > get the configuration to "stick" and had problems writing to my CF > card and ran out of time.) > > Now I've lost the use of my

[Astlinux-users] Problems getting started

2008-12-20 Thread Phil McKerracher
Hi, I'm back - some of you with long memories may recall that I tried to get started with astlinux two years ago and gave up. (I couldn't get the configuration to "stick" and had problems writing to my CF card and ran out of time.) Now I've lost the use of my ISDN PBX (due to termination of the IS