[Soekris] Cloning a bootable CF

2009-11-24 Thread Marco A. Calamari
I'm trying to make a fresh CF with linux lenny for my 5501 using the bootable CF that is working on a 4801 and cloning in on a Sandisk UltraII 4GB bought by Soekris store. Minicom speed is the right one. I've done a dump, make and format an 1 GB ext2 partition on the flash, done a restore,

Re: [Soekris] Using Vi on a net4501 with nanobsd

2009-11-24 Thread Jonathan Groll
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 07:02:10PM +1300, Bruce Griffiths wrote: I have found that once I switch to insert mode and have entered a few lines I cannot switch back to command mode when using Vi with nanobsd running on a net 4501. I use minicom on a Linux box for editing (its convenient). Its not a

[Soekris] Second Serial Port?

2009-11-24 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Hi, Am I right to understand, that the second serial port on the net5501 is accessible only through an interface on the board itself, and it isn't exposed through the case? I would really like access from outside the casing. Forgive if this is shown somewhere else; I'm blind and can't examine

Re: [Soekris] OpenBSD installation problem

2009-11-24 Thread aniss siyouti
Hi kim, Thank you for your answer my soekris is connected to my pc,i have DNS-nameserver but i can't ping. # ping 99.135.170.94 PING 99.135.170.94 (99.135.170.94): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: No route to host ping: wrote 99.135.170.94 64 chars, ret=-1 ping: sendto: No route to host ping: wrote

Re: [Soekris] Second Serial Port?

2009-11-24 Thread Joel Jaeggli
You are correct the second serial port is on a 10 pin header (jp4) adjacent to the Compact flash slot on the right hand side of the board. It can be connected to a db9 serial port with a fairly standard serial to db9 ribbon cable with the caveat that frequently the 10th pin with be clipped in

Re: [Soekris] Second Serial Port?

2009-11-24 Thread Tom Huppi
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu m...@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com wrote: Hi, Am I right to understand, that the second serial port on the net5501 is accessible only through an interface on the board itself, and it isn't exposed through the case?  I would really like

Re: [Soekris] Cloning a bootable CF

2009-11-24 Thread Marco A. Calamari
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:51 +0100, Flemming Jacobsen wrote: Hey Why don't you just clone it using dd: Insert old card dd if=/dev/DEVICE of=/tmp/soekris.image bs=64k Insert new card dd of=/dev/DEVICE if=/tmp/soekris.image bs=64k The original CF is 512Mb and the new is 4Gb. I

Re: [Soekris] Cloning a bootable CF

2009-11-24 Thread Darrick Hartman
Marco A. Calamari wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:51 +0100, Flemming Jacobsen wrote: Hey Why don't you just clone it using dd: Insert old card dd if=/dev/DEVICE of=/tmp/soekris.image bs=64k Insert new card dd of=/dev/DEVICE if=/tmp/soekris.image bs=64k The original CF is

Re: [Soekris] net4501 and nanobsd's updatep2 script

2009-11-24 Thread Aragon Gouveia
Hi, Bruce Griffiths wrote: ssh gu...@192.168.1.34 cat _.disk.image | sh updatep2 to update nanobsd on a net4501 and then reboot the net4501 reboots using the 2nd partition of the flashcard but with the previous version of the nanobsd kernel. Is this a known issue/problem? I'm not sure

Re: [Soekris] OpenBSD installation problem

2009-11-24 Thread Kim Weilie
Re, Ok, Your problem is your net-routing-config on host-pc. I assume youre using some kind of Linux. Try to find some examples in the net how to configure your network for routing. (esp. routing-tables and port-forwarding IPv4, or bridged-network-mode) Kim

Re: [Soekris] Cloning a bootable CF

2009-11-24 Thread Joel Jaeggli
or just add additional partitions. Darrick Hartman wrote: Marco A. Calamari wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:51 +0100, Flemming Jacobsen wrote: Hey Why don't you just clone it using dd: Insert old card dd if=/dev/DEVICE of=/tmp/soekris.image bs=64k Insert new card dd

Re: [Soekris] Cloning a bootable CF

2009-11-24 Thread Marco A. Calamari
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 06:40 -0600, Darrick Hartman wrote: Marco A. Calamari wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:51 +0100, Flemming Jacobsen wrote: Hey Why don't you just clone it using dd: Insert old card dd if=/dev/DEVICE of=/tmp/soekris.image bs=64k Insert new card dd

Re: [Soekris] Cloning a bootable CF

2009-11-24 Thread Darrick Hartman
Marco A. Calamari wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 06:40 -0600, Darrick Hartman wrote: Marco A. Calamari wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:51 +0100, Flemming Jacobsen wrote: Hey Why don't you just clone it using dd: Insert old card dd if=/dev/DEVICE of=/tmp/soekris.image bs=64k Insert

Re: [Soekris] Cloning a bootable CF

2009-11-24 Thread Bill Maas
Hi Marco, On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:17 -0600, Darrick Hartman wrote: Marco A. Calamari wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 06:40 -0600, Darrick Hartman wrote: Marco A. Calamari wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:51 +0100, Flemming Jacobsen wrote: Hey Why don't you just clone it using dd:

Re: [Soekris] Cloning a bootable CF

2009-11-24 Thread Stephen Melvin
I've done this a few times on FreeBSD when CF sizes don't match and have found the following sequence to work swimmingly: Assumes you have another FreeBSD system that has a CF card reader and enough disk space to store a memory image of the new CF card. First find out the exact size of the new