Hi Parth, here is something I wrote a while ago:
http://stsx.xs4all.nl/www.stsx.org/openbsd/obsd-bootsoekris.txt It's a kind of step by step guide to booting a Soekris box off an OpenBSD boot server. It doesn't contain many hardware details, but it _could_ get you started. The overall procedure for e.g. FreeBSD or Linux wouldn't be much different. The document doesn't cover installing OpenBSD directly to disk, but once you've managed to run a bsd.rd from the boot server, that will be incredibly easy, provided you've seen a BSD disklabel before;). Just don't forget to set console output to com0. Appendix A contains a list of more OpenBSD/Soekris related sites. Kernel Panic has the clearest and best maintained OpenBSD/Soekris pages that I know of: http://www.kernel-panic.it/openbsd/embedded/ And then there is the famous: http://www.cheapnet.net/~mike/soekris/ .. in case you'd rather run a Linux on your Soekris box. You can of course also try booting the box off an USB card, but I wouldn't know where to find an overview of how that (e.g. setting the boot device in the comBIOS) is done. Boot device issues have been passing this list with some regularity over the last 1/2 year or so, so searching the archives should give you some clues. Bill On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 14:12 -0700, Parth Pathak wrote: > Hi all, > > I (newbie) just got one net4826 board and before starting anything I > want a manual or atleast a "gettingstarted" kind of document. I cant > find that on website. is there any other pointer to it. Please help me > with this. > > thanks > > pp > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: > mail, news, photos & more. > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- "Fix bugs first, add features later" _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
