Members of the LEAF crew release pxeinstall.tgz today, December 6th 2003. Based on the work of Eric de Thouars ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) we created a tool to make use of PXE to boot systems like a Soekris net4501 or a LexSystem (tested with a CV860A version) so that you can format an IDE HD or a CF card, put an msdos file system and syslinux on the IDE/HD or CF card and finally copy all files necessary for a Bering(-uClibc) system on the storage device.
You can download pxeinstall.tgz directly from cvs (one line): http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/leaf/bin/packages/nolibc/ pxeinstall.tgz?rev=HEAD&content-type=application/octet-stream With the functionality of pxeinstall.tgz you can: - boot the system via the network, - put a number of different file systems on the HD/CF card (minix, ext2, swap, msdos), - make the HD/CF card bootable (syslinux) - download files onto the card/HD via http or ftp (wget) or - download files onto the card/HD via Windows networking (smbmount and cp) Please note: The PXE boot functionality can only be used to get a system up and running, it is not intended to be used for regular use. For example, you cannot backup any files because the backup function does not exist. It can be used to install any LEAF distribution onto your HD/CF. It requires a special Linux kernel config and the supported NIC's compiled into kernel - NIC modules won't work. The currently supported NIC's are: 3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) "Vortex/Boomerang" AT1700/1720 AMD PCnet32 PCI DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI EtherExpressPro/100 National Semiconductor DP8381x series PCI Ethernet PCI NE2000 and clones RealTek RTL-8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter SMC EtherPower II VIA Rhine Winbond W89c840 EthernetI If you need support for a network card other than the above listed, we added a kernel config for use with Linux Kernel 2.4.18 as a starting point in the tgz. For more doc's pls read: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/guide/bucu-ide.html thx for reading kp ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
