Re: [Soekris] net 6501: USB boot

2011-11-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 03:06:34PM -0800, Matt Thrailkill wrote: >Well, most OSes still distribute their installers as ISOs. grub can boot off a usb drive and load iso's... Mike Stone ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://l

Re: [Soekris] net 6501: USB boot

2011-11-27 Thread Matt Thrailkill
Well, most OSes still distribute their installers as ISOs. I usually do my installs inside VMs these days because I am lazy(attach the target disk via USB and then install to it), but the other day I actually did a USB CD install because I had the drive laying around and it was less work at the ti

Re: [Soekris] boot net5501 from harddisk when CF is present

2011-11-27 Thread Philip
Wim I think you found the answer, or at least part of it. When I have only the HD the bios says that the HD is primary master. When I have the HD and the CF the bios says that the CF is primary master and no mention of the HD. The HD needs a jumper put on it to make it cable select, with no jump

Re: [Soekris] net 6501: USB boot

2011-11-27 Thread Soren Kristensen
Hi Ralph, Ralph Becker-Szendy wrote: > Soren wrote: > >> No CD/DVD ROM support yet, but are looking into adding it. > > Please! For one-off installations on Soekris, the lack of BIOS > support for CD boot is my #1 hassle. Sure, one can boot over the > network, or remove the disk and do the insta

Re: [Soekris] net 6501: USB boot

2011-11-27 Thread Soren Kristensen
Hi Ralph, Ralph Becker-Szendy wrote: > Soren wrote: > >> No CD/DVD ROM support yet, but are looking into adding it. > > Please! For one-off installations on Soekris, the lack of BIOS > support for CD boot is my #1 hassle. Sure, one can boot over the > network, or remove the disk and do the insta

Re: [Soekris] net 6501: USB boot

2011-11-27 Thread Ralph Becker-Szendy
Soren wrote: > No CD/DVD ROM support yet, but are looking into adding it. Please! For one-off installations on Soekris, the lack of BIOS support for CD boot is my #1 hassle. Sure, one can boot over the network, or remove the disk and do the install on another machine, but all of those add ext

Re: [Soekris] net 6501: soft boot

2011-11-27 Thread Frank Schuhmann
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