Re: [Soekris] 5501 boot from cdrom

2008-12-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-12-04, Ebbe Hjorth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just bought a soekris 5501, with flash, sata disk and a 40 to 44 pin converter, to boot from cdrom, but i think im missing a manual to get it booting from the cd rom, can you please advice? Right now i dont have the flash card in. It

Re: [Soekris] 5501 boot from cdrom

2008-12-04 Thread Ebbe Hjorth
Hi, I tested booting from a CD and it won't work, the Net5501 doesn't support that, no matter if the drive is connected via USB, SATA or DIE. Robin So there is only the netboot way? Thats not for a newbie like me ;) ___ Soekris-tech mailing list

Re: [Soekris] 5501 boot from cdrom

2008-12-04 Thread Robin Kipp
Hi, So there is only the netboot way? Thats not for a newbie like me ;) Well, most people say it isn't that hard and there are some tutorials on the Soekris wiki. What you can also do is install whatever os you want on the Compact Flash card using a normal computer and card reader, but I think

Re: [Soekris] 5501 boot from cdrom

2008-12-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-12-04, Andrew Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PXE boot isn't really for the faint hearted. depends on the OS. for some it's very simple providing you can read and follow instructions, just a handful of steps. for others iirc you get to either configure NFS or rebuild your boot loader...