Hello Dale, Yes, the instructions you linked should work.
Regards, James On Mon, 4 Feb 2019, 23:17 Gary, Dale E. <dale.e.g...@njit.edu wrote: > Hi James, > > Thanks for the reply. The ROACHes at the observatory are netbooted, and I > do not have an SD card for booting, so would have to create one. I suppose > I could clone the uboot system from the observatory to campus and try to > set up tftp etc. -- that is pretty much what I intended to do using the > instructions I had linked to, but my question is whether there are new > instructions somewhere that I should use. It seems the answer is no, so I > will proceed with the old instructions. > > Thanks, > Dale > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 5:37 AM James Smith <jsm...@ska.ac.za> wrote: > >> Hello Dale, >> >> Do you have any existing, functioning ROACH2 boards? Are they booting >> from an SD card or from network? If it's a network card then it's a simple >> matter to copy the one to the other, if from network then the most you may >> need to do is update your dnsmasq.conf to assign an IP address to the new >> ROACH2 (its MAC address should be the same as existing ones but the last >> few digits reflect the serial number of the ROACH2). >> >> The instructions linked look as though they should work but AFAIK it's >> been a while since anyone put in a new ROACH2 anywhere, so YMMV. At SKA, >> we've mostly moved on to SKARAB. However, there's quite a bit of >> organisational memory, so if you battle, just shout. >> >> Regards, >> James >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 8:51 PM Gary, Dale E. <dale.e.g...@njit.edu> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> We need to bring up a new ROACH2 board from scratch for the purpose of >>> introducing students to the tools based on the Casper 2018 tutorials. >>> Although I did all of this 3-4 years ago at our observatory, I need to >>> refresh my memory, and I would like to take advantage of any new >>> developments. Are the instructions (ca 2015) still correct as listed >>> here: >>> https://casper.ssl.berkeley.edu/wiki/ROACH-2_Revision_2#Updating_tcpborphserver_3_etc. >>> ? If there are updated instructions, please let me know. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Dale Gary >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. >>> To post to this group, send email to casper@lists.berkeley.edu. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. >> To post to this group, send email to casper@lists.berkeley.edu. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " > casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. > To post to this group, send email to casper@lists.berkeley.edu. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. To post to this group, send email to casper@lists.berkeley.edu.