Hi Let's say I just got my first Soekris in the mail and I've never done any of this before. Like it or not if I'm Joe average I have a Windows PC somewhere. Past that it's tough to guess what I do or do not have lying around the house. Simply getting serial I/O going is not trivial (is this the right cable or the wrong one ....). The more steps to follow and things to install the more chances of a simple stupid error. Cascaded stupid errors can be very aggravating .... With no "stable base" to start from things can be more difficult than they should be.
It would be very nice to have a few "cookbooks" for this kind of thing. The form might be "use this terminal program , short pins 2 and 3 together and type to check the software". The software distributions have information scattered about in a lot of places. It's not particularly easy to pull it all together first time around. There are just enough odd things about the Soekris boards that it might be worth doing. I still hold my breath each time I grab a new flash card until I see which disk number it's going to boot as on each board ... Bob Camp On Jul 3, 2007, at 3:01 AM, Bill Maas wrote: > Hi, > > I hope I didn't offend anyone with my possibly somewhat harsh tirade > against burning CF cards externally yesterday. Meanwhile, an > installation procedure for linux that in my view is both the most > standard and easiest to follow, has been bubbling up from the depth of > my memory. > ................................... _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
