Many thanks. On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Frank A. Schneider <fran...@gmx.net> wrote:
> surely not, no chroot or chown. > Normally on another computer, just mount the partition on the card to > somewhere, cd to this location, and, as root, extract the compressed > archive containing already the complete file system. > Of course, you should first remove files and folders from previous tries > or, faster, reformat > > On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 10:10 -0400, Steven Sullivan wrote: > > Do I need to do a chroot or chown? > > > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Frank A. Schneider <fran...@gmx.net> > wrote: > > > > > you have to create a primary partition like on a hard disk, I use > > > fdisk. This is my 4GB sd card from the akita: > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > > /dev/sdb1 3 1000 1826340 b W95 FAT32 > > > /dev/sdb2 1001 1500 915000 83 Linux > > > /dev/sdb3 1501 2080 1061400 83 Linux > > > /dev/sdb4 2081 2182 186660 82 Linux swap / > > > Solaris > > > > > > Partitions 2 and 3 are formatted with ext3. Now just cd to the location > > > where the partition is mounted e.g. `cd /mnt/sdb2' and, as root, > execute > > > `tar xjf <some_place>/random-01a116b9-image-akita.tar.bz2' > > > There is nothing more to it. > > > Good Luck, Frank > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 09:03 -0400, Steven Sullivan wrote: > > > > I've been trying to get a poodle console-only narcissus image to boot > > > from > > > > SD using kexecboot in flash. Kexecboot seems to work fine but I'm > having > > > > problems on my 1GB, ext2-formatted SD card. I assume I have missed > some > > > > step in partitioning or setting up permissions/ownership of the file > > > system > > > > on the card. Could someone walk me through completely resetting the > card > > > > (any mkfs.ext2 options, partitions, chown) for use with narcissus > images? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Angstrom-distro-users mailing list > > > > Angstrom-distro-users@linuxtogo.org > > > > > > > > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Angstrom-distro-users mailing list > > > Angstrom-distro-users@linuxtogo.org > > > > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Angstrom-distro-users mailing list > > Angstrom-distro-users@linuxtogo.org > > > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Angstrom-distro-users mailing list > Angstrom-distro-users@linuxtogo.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users > _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list Angstrom-distro-users@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
