I thought I’d have another go at getting Astlinux to work on my net4801 (my annual attempt – I see the last time I tried was in January 2007!). It’s getting urgent now because I will lose the use of my old ISDN PBX in March. It took me a while to find the documentation again (don’t know why I didn’t bookmark it) – could a link to http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/AstLinux be added to the Softforge page, please?
I pulled down version 0.4.8, put it on a CF card and it booted up OK, and I could talk to the box via the serial port (after hunting around for a terminal program, since Vista doesn’t come with one!). However, I couldn’t connect to the web interface, and ifconfig only had 127.0.0.1 listed, although the lights were flashing on Eth 0. I did see some errors flash by while I was booting, but I’m not sure if they were more than normal. Now the fun starts. I tried writing an older “known working” Astlinux version to the CF card, but physdiskwrite wouldn’t write to it any more. I tried formatting the card in windows and reading and writing to it and that all worked fine but physdiskwrite still refused. However, I noticed the formatted capacity of the card is just under 64 Meg, and the latest version of Astlinux expands to a full 64 Meg. So maybe physdiskwrite has corrupted the card somehow? Anyway, I’ve recently managed to get Ubuntu (Feisty) to dual boot on my PC (thanks to wubi, wonderful program!) so I thought I’d try that instead. It wouldn’t write 0.4.8 to the card, but 0.4.7 fitted after some fiddling (the docs say to unmount it but I found it needed to be mounted). It booted on the 4801 but was very sick – it kept reporting disk write errors. So it appears my flash card is faulty, though I’m not sure, since it still seems to work fine in Windows (and it’s the recommended SanDisk from Soekris, hardly used). I will try a new larger one anyway since they are cheap enough now, but it will take a couple of days to arrive, by which time I’ll be back at work. By the way, I tried to use my flash stick in windows (vista) again after it had been formatted by genkd, and found that I couldn’t format it properly any more. I found a low level formatting utility (at http://hddguru.com) that fixed that problem and tried it on the CF card as well, but it didn’t help. Phil McKerracher www.mckerracher.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
