Victor McAllister schrieb: >>>> >>>> 2) removal of one hash mark in front of "ttyS0" in >>>> /etc/inittab. >>>> >>>> Such serial access would very much lessen the labour >>>> to configure a recycled, but functional machine.
All that's really needed is a preconfigured serconf.lrp which has the right inittab. It can be selected in leaf.cfg with CONFIGDB=serconf This is trivial to provide. .. >> > I get around this by having an old machine with an ide to compact flash > adapter, a keyboard, a floppy and video. I boot off a modified floppy > image that uses the initrd for ide and runs hdsupp.lrp at bootup > (without the other stuff like shorewall). I then stepup the compact > flash and make it bootable. The machine has a Netgear 311 pci card > which is equivalent to the network chips on the WRAP and Soekris. (This > verifies network modules are properly loaded). I make repeated bootups, > configure everything except the serial console. When everything appears > to work, I edit inittab and syslinux.cfg to add the serial console and > save the configuration. The CF then goes into the Soekris or WRAP and I > have a serial console for fixing any minor mistakes. Usually everything > is working at this point and I can use webconf or putty to make any > final tweeks. I find this is much faster than scrolling through a long > file with a serial console. Why do you make it that hard? I am facing almost exclusively headless devices (most of them WRAP boards). Let's face it, preparing a leaf boot medium in the M$ world is a royal pain in the butt. However, not everybody has a running linux installation handy at all times. One way to overcome this is to run a Knoppix distribution, either from CD or in a virtualized environment like the VMware player. Now for a flash medium all that's needed is a cheap USB flash writer, floppy or whatever you feel like writing to. The editor supports the correct file format, no reformatting files due to M$ line breaks. You have all the tools you need to artition and format the medium, write a boot loaderm copy whatever you want to it. No extra hardware is required. cheers Erich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
