RE: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen Updates
Good point. It may be possible as cdrtools (mkisofs) compiles fine under cygwin. I haven't tried though. But I agree it will be harder for many end-users. Ewald, mkisofs / cdrecord work fine in a pure Windows config. I use them to produce almost all CD's here at work. I can make them bootable, with any type of floppy, 1.44 or 2.88. application/ms-tnef
RE: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen Updates
You're seeing this error because the default configuration is linux - which is for a floppy-based boot. The most recent CDROM should use cdrom as the default config. Ah. Thanks. The default screen is the linux config screen. F1 will make the cdrom/largenet/firewall/etc. options appear, and F10 will make the Linux option the current screen again. When using CDROM, it still tries to mount /dev/fd0u1680, fails, and goes on. Not a big problem, but you will see the read failure messages on the console and in the syslog. I'm very pleased with the way things are shaping up with the Oxygen CDROMs. The main problems with the current image are: This is looking very nice, Dave. You should be proud. Thanks! Regarding the largenet SegFault, this is probably a stupid question, but could it have anything to do with trying to load 105 packages all at once? Has anyone else loaded that many before? ___ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
RE: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen Updates
On 12/20/01 at 8:34 AM, Angelacos, Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The default screen is the linux config screen. F1 will make the cdrom/largenet/firewall/etc. options appear, and F10 will make the Linux option the current screen again. That's right. When using CDROM, it still tries to mount /dev/fd0u1680, fails, and goes on. Not a big problem, but you will see the read failure messages on the console and in the syslog. The configuration is looking for a configuration file and for packages that supercede those on the CDROM; it tries very hard :) I don't like the error messages, though... Regarding the largenet SegFault, this is probably a stupid question, but could it have anything to do with trying to load 105 packages all at once? Has anyone else loaded that many before? I strongly suspect it - but I can't prove it. The loading is in a section of code like this: for ... if ... for ... installpkgfunc done fi done ...and one of the for loops has all of the packages from the list in it - and maybe the function has them as arguments... -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Unixware, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
RE: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen Updates
Nathan, When booting from a CD, the only floppy formats supported are 1.44 and 2.88. Check which format Oxygen-CD is using and correct your config file. -Original Message- From: Angelacos, Nathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 9:33 PM To: LEAF Development Subject: RE: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen Updates David Douthitt wrote: Also, the Oxygen Bootable CDROM has been updated, but the 'largenet' configuration is still SegFaulting at the end. Please help me find out why It's very puzzling, as there is plenty of RAMdisk space and other configurations work fine. In case it is any help to anyone else, when I booted with the CD and just hit enter (default is linux), linuxrc ran until the section *** ALMOST ALL OTHER PARAMETERS WILL BE IGNORED! *** LINUXRC: couldn't mount /dev/fd0u1680 with fs msdos! LINUXRC: error: not configuration LINUXRC: stopping system... and it stopped. From an older post of Dave's I tried this at the initial boot prompt: boot: linux conf=testcd.cfg and boot: linux conf=cdrom.cfg and LINUXRC goes through, complains about not finding /dev/fd0u1680 several times, then loads the packages and runs. I'm sure I'm abusing the boot prompt and should be entering other things as well, but this was the minimum I needed to get going. I'm sure I missed something along the line, but the Dec 17 .iso is the first one that's worked for me. Looking forward to testing further. Dave, is the linux conf=largenet.cfg the way I'm supposed to test the largenet.cfg? ___ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel application/ms-tnef
RE: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen Updates
Luis.F.Correia wrote: When booting from a CD, the only floppy formats supported are 1.44 and 2.88. Check which format Oxygen-CD is using and correct your config file. Luis, Thanks. Just as a clarification, the CD-image I'm using is (currently dated Dec 17) and at: http:leaf.sourceforge.net/pub/oxygen/development/oxygen.iso I think anyone who simply downloads that image and burns a CD from the iso will have the same problems I did. But your suggestion is helpful in looking for what to modify before burning another CD. ___ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
Re: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen Updates
Luis.F.Correia wrote: Nathan, When booting from a CD, the only floppy formats supported are 1.44 and 2.88. David, others, is there a reason for using syslinux instead of isolinux? I'd say it's easier to use isolinux and forget about floppy images on the CD. Ewald Wasscher ___ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
RE: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen Updates
David, others, is there a reason for using syslinux instead of isolinux? I'd say it's easier to use isolinux and forget about floppy images on the CD. FWIW, ISOLinux worked great on the initial load, but there were some problems with LINUXRC. If I recall correctly, it seemed to want to mount the cd drive, which it couldn't do, and then got lost. I don't recall the specifics, as I tossed my CD in the hopes that people much smarter than me would figure it out. :-) But my impression was that the Oxygen init script is expecting to be run from a floppy or floppy-emulated device. ___ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
Re: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen Updates
David, others, is there a reason for using syslinux instead of isolinux? I'd say it's easier to use isolinux and forget about floppy images on the CD. I don't know about David, but I've stuck with using a floppy disk image for a couple of reasons: 1) It's generally easier for me to maintain...the boot-disk is a very simple case of a standard distribution floppy. 2) It's easier (IMHO) for end-users to modify the floppy disk boot image if they need to burn a CD than it is to modify the isolinux configuration and make a bootable CD. I'm not even sure you could make a bootable CD on windows using isolinux and commonly available CD Burner software... Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) ___ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
Re: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen Updates
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: David, others, is there a reason for using syslinux instead of isolinux? I'd say it's easier to use isolinux and forget about floppy images on the CD. I don't know about David, but I've stuck with using a floppy disk image for a couple of reasons: 1) It's generally easier for me to maintain...the boot-disk is a very simple case of a standard distribution floppy. Easier? I diagree, but forget it. 2) It's easier (IMHO) for end-users to modify the floppy disk boot image if they need to burn a CD than it is to modify the isolinux configuration and make a bootable CD. I'm not even sure you could make a bootable CD on windows using isolinux and commonly available CD Burner software... Good point. It may be possible as cdrtools (mkisofs) compiles fine under cygwin. I haven't tried though. But I agree it will be harder for many end-users. Ewald Wasscher ___ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
Re: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen Updates
David, others, is there a reason for using syslinux instead of isolinux? I'd say it's easier to use isolinux and forget about floppy images on the CD. snip 2) It's easier (IMHO) for end-users to modify the floppy disk boot image if they need to burn a CD than it is to modify the isolinux configuration and make a bootable CD. I'm not even sure you could make a bootable CD on windows using isolinux and commonly available CD Burner software... Good point. It may be possible as cdrtools (mkisofs) compiles fine under cygwin. I haven't tried though. But I agree it will be harder for many end-users. Oh...I almost forgot the biggest reason of all: 3) I have to make a boot floppy anyway, for folks running older systems that don't boot off a CD-ROM drive. Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) ___ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
Re: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen Updates
Am Mittwoch, 19. Dezember 2001 19:36 schrieb Ewald Wasscher: Luis.F.Correia wrote: Nathan, When booting from a CD, the only floppy formats supported are 1.44 and 2.88. David, others, is there a reason for using syslinux instead of isolinux? I'd say it's easier to use isolinux and forget about floppy images on the CD. isolinux don't work with all bios'es - where the bios'es are the culprit of course, but who cares? Some older IBM PC's are affected - which, in my case, is really bad, since I'm able to get them for nothing and they'll make really good routers (Pentium class up to 192 mb RAM). just my personal opinion kp ___ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
RE: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen Updates
On 12/18/01 at 4:32 PM, Angelacos, Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In case it is any help to anyone else, when I booted with the CD and just hit enter (default is linux), linuxrc ran until the section *** ALMOST ALL OTHER PARAMETERS WILL BE IGNORED! *** LINUXRC: couldn't mount /dev/fd0u1680 with fs msdos! LINUXRC: error: not configuration LINUXRC: stopping system... and it stopped. You're seeing this error because the default configuration is linux - which is for a floppy-based boot. The most recent CDROM should use cdrom as the default config. In any case, press F10 to get a list of current configurations: turned out I forgot to make the appropriate title page the default (sigh). From an older post of Dave's I tried this at the initial boot prompt: boot: linux conf=testcd.cfg and boot: linux conf=cdrom.cfg and LINUXRC goes through, complains about not finding /dev/fd0u1680 several times, then loads the packages and runs. I'm sure I'm abusing the boot prompt and should be entering other things as well, but this was the minimum I needed to get going. cdrom should be the default; testcd is designed as a way of testing the CDROM boot sequence with minimal or no loading from floppy. All you need at the boot prompt is a CDROM configuration and that's it. The CDROM configurations are in the F10 screen and are: smallnet, largenet, rescue, firewall, cdrom, and testcd. I'm sure I missed something along the line, but the Dec 17 .iso is the first one that's worked for me. I'm very pleased with the way things are shaping up with the Oxygen CDROMs. The main problems with the current image are: * Incorrect default text screen - and perhaps wrong default configuration * largenet SegFaults... Dave, is the linux conf=largenet.cfg the way I'm supposed to test the largenet.cfg? No - at the prompt type: largenet ...and hit enter. There is also the flag verbose to make it talk a lot, and the flag ramdisk_size= to increase the size of the RAM disk. Apparently, increasing the size of the RAM disk doesn't make a difference. -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Unixware, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
RE: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen Updates
David Douthitt wrote: Also, the Oxygen Bootable CDROM has been updated, but the 'largenet' configuration is still SegFaulting at the end. Please help me find out why It's very puzzling, as there is plenty of RAMdisk space and other configurations work fine. In case it is any help to anyone else, when I booted with the CD and just hit enter (default is linux), linuxrc ran until the section *** ALMOST ALL OTHER PARAMETERS WILL BE IGNORED! *** LINUXRC: couldn't mount /dev/fd0u1680 with fs msdos! LINUXRC: error: not configuration LINUXRC: stopping system... and it stopped. From an older post of Dave's I tried this at the initial boot prompt: boot: linux conf=testcd.cfg and boot: linux conf=cdrom.cfg and LINUXRC goes through, complains about not finding /dev/fd0u1680 several times, then loads the packages and runs. I'm sure I'm abusing the boot prompt and should be entering other things as well, but this was the minimum I needed to get going. I'm sure I missed something along the line, but the Dec 17 .iso is the first one that's worked for me. Looking forward to testing further. Dave, is the linux conf=largenet.cfg the way I'm supposed to test the largenet.cfg? ___ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
