Lonnie

Thanks for the precious infos, but you're using MacOSX and I'm using Linux 
CentOS so there are differences, and I also have a question below about 
how/whether to put a bootloader on the CF card.

Here's what I understood I should do:

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1. Download Darrick's Runnix image # wget 
http://www.djhsolutions.com/astlinux/runnix.img.gz

2. Using fdisk, delete all partitions on the CF card, and create a 128MB 
FAT16 partition +128M ; t 6; a to make active/bootable ; w to write

3. Copy runnix.img.gz to the CF card:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# gzcat runnix.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdd1 bs=16k
-bash: gzcat: command not found
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes (0 B) copied, 2.7798e-05 seconds, 0.0 kB/s

So I tried this:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# gunzip -c runnix.img.gz > /dev/sdd1 bs=16k
gunzip: stdout: No space left on device
^C

So I tried this next:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# gunzip -c runnix.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdd1 bs=16k
dd: writing `/dev/sdd1': No space left on device
^C
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Obviously, I'm doing it wrong :-/

An extra question for good measure: When dd'ing an image to /dev/sdd 
instead of /dev/sdd1, does it mean that the CF card has no bootloader, so 
that the single partition must be bootable/active for the BIOS to use it? 
Otherwise, where is the bootloader?

Thank you. 


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