Dear Casper Group, We are working in MIT's Omniscope group, which until now has been using roach-1's. Four days ago, we got our first roach-2 board! Following the mail archive (thank you so much for your help!), we set a static ip for the roach-2 through the serial port, and we managed to program the fpga through the telnet connection using katcp commands, with the PowerPC booting soloboot from its flash drive.
However, in our roach-1 system, which had NFS setup, we made use of a python script running on the PowerPC, whose role was to take the data from the FPGA, and send it through the UDP protocol to the server PC for storage. We are now trying to use the same code for the roach-2; for this, we need to have python running on the PowerPC. Is there any way to get python going if we have the PowerPC booting in soloboot from the flash drive? If not, what do you recommend us to do? If the answer is that we need to set up netboot to boot via dhcp+tftp+nfs, there is another constraint: we want our final system to make use of a combination of roach-1 and roach-2. We are going to have the server PC connected to both. Is there going to be a conflict between the versions when we try to set up the NFS for roach-2 as well? We weren't part of the group when the first roaches in our group were configured, and this is all new to us, so we really appreciate your help. Thank you so much! Ioana, Jeff
