can't you just pxe boot the OS and install like normal? this is sheer madness
R Bruce Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Because private mail was not what I expected from the list... just in > case someone else has the same question... > > -- > "Suppose you were an idiot... > And suppose you were a member of Congress... > But I repeat myself." > - Mark Twain > > =========================================================== > R Bruce Hoffman > > > Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:19:32 -0400 > From: R Bruce Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Kannaiyan Natesan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Soekris] Fedora 7 no drives visible > User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070615) > > Honestly... no. I am unable to share the details of that information... > it's considered proprietary. And there is very little "truely" relevant > information currently available on the web. > > Off the record... build an FC4 machine. Three partitions. First > partition full root and install. Boot. Mount second partition as > /duplicate, copy foundation to /duplicate. Screw with grub config to > bring up /duplicate as root (boot into second partition.) Scrub to small > system with essential services on /duplicate. Reboot back into first > partition. Construct image files on third partition. Mount image file in > loop device. Copy /duplicate parts to the mounted image file. Unmount. > Copy image to CF card. Grub up the CF card. Pull out the CF card. Mount > in Soekris. > > But this is just the beginning. You need to mess with the init.d scripts > and Red Hat has specific ways of booting read only and shutdown's are a > problem as is making ramdisk images available for certain writeable > directories during normal operations. > > > Kannaiyan Natesan wrote: > >Hi Bruce, > > > >Can you please let me know how you managed to run Fedora Core 4 onto > >CF and boot the soekris. I'm looking for similar solution for net > >5501. > > > >Thanks. > > > >Regards, > >kannaiyan > > > >On 7/9/07, R Bruce Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I have both 4801 and 5501 running with Fedora Core 4 from CF. > >> > >>I have noticed that during the attempted boot of Fedora 7, that there > >>are no drives visible during the nash init script running from the > >>initial ram disk image, nor during a non-initrd boot. No hda, no sda, no > >>labels... > >> > >>Does anyone know what driver I might be missing here? > >> > >>I have tried the various ones that are listed from a search of the > >>CS5536 and AMD stuff through the initrd image, (like , pata_cs5535.ko , > >>5530 and 5520) but I don't see anything in the modules that acknowledges > >>the CF configuration like what happened in the FC4 versions. > >> > >>Is this just a matter of the 5536 being too new for Fedora? Or am I > >>missing something else? > >> > >> > >>-- > >>"Suppose you were an idiot... > >> And suppose you were a member of Congress... > >> But I repeat myself." > >> - Mark Twain > >> > >>=========================================================== > >>R Bruce Hoffman > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Soekris-tech mailing list > >>Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > >>http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > >> > > -- > "Suppose you were an idiot... > And suppose you were a member of Congress... > But I repeat myself." > - Mark Twain > > =========================================================== > R Bruce Hoffman > > > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- "The lessons of history teach us - if they teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us." - Paul Robinson _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
