Re: [Soekris] Debian unstable on 4526

2007-10-07 Thread Andy Michaels
Antoine, any chance you could post this to the wiki? It'd be a great resource to have available there. http://wiki.soekris.info -Andy On Oct 7, 2007, at 9:34 AM, Antoine Zen Ruffinen wrote: > Hi > > I've made a Debian (4.0r1) install on a net4801 board. I have maybe a > tip for you: You can bo

Re: [Soekris] Debian unstable on 4526

2007-10-07 Thread Esteban Ribičić
thanks guys! i think the installation is not working as debian is installing main / base packages it runs out of memory or something .. while i'm at console i cant ctrol+alt+f2 to get a console and see what is going on. besides, on debian (sarge) when u boot the instalation it goes to a different

Re: [Soekris] Debian unstable on 4526

2007-10-07 Thread Bill Maas
Hi Esteban, I'm not sure what you mean with an inet installation, but if you've managed to set up PXE/DHCP/TFTP then your just one step, or at most two, from an NFS install. Alternatively you could mount an NFS root and just dump /* (excl. /proc an /sys) onto the CF card, edit a few files (fstab e

Re: [Soekris] Debian unstable on 4526

2007-10-07 Thread Antoine Zen Ruffinen
Hi I've made a Debian (4.0r1) install on a net4801 board. I have maybe a tip for you: You can boot the install connecting your Soekris to your PC using a network cable. Then when the first screen of the install appeared (the one about language), you can disconnect the soekris form your PC and

Re: [Soekris] Debian unstable on 4526

2007-10-07 Thread Esteban Ribičić
:) its probably you getting ready for oktober fest! On 10/7/07, Jochen Voß <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > sorry, please ignore my mail. I confused the numbers: 4526 != 4521. > Sorry about that. > > All the best, > Jochen > -- > http://seehuhn.de/ > > > _

Re: [Soekris] Debian unstable on 4526

2007-10-07 Thread Esteban Ribičić
i got inet working, but installation start triggering warnings while downloading packages once and again..i tried setting up swap space (i can always delete after installation) and same story. did anyone succeed installing debian on a 4526 using the inet installation? i'm thinking now on creatin

Re: [Soekris] Debian unstable on 4526

2007-10-06 Thread Esteban Ribičić
yeah, my laptop is cheaper than my soekris board so wifi is not much of an option. i got a hub from a friend and i think with some pf + secondary ip will work!! thanmks for the suggestins! On 10/6/07, John Philips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Assuming your laptop is running Windows, you can > con

Re: [Soekris] Debian unstable on 4526

2007-10-06 Thread Bill Maas
Hi, On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 16:08 +0200, Esteban Ribičić wrote: > hi list, > > been using my 4526 with netbsd for some time, dont ask me why i cant > get fully comfortable with bsd so i tried today installing debian > using their netbood installer package...all goes sweet until i have to > choose a

Re: [Soekris] Debian unstable on 4526

2007-10-06 Thread John Philips
Assuming your laptop is running Windows, you can configure Internet Connection Sharing to make it act as a router. It would allow the Soekris board to download from the main Debian sites. If you laptop runs Linux, you can make it act as a router with iptables, if it runs BSD you can do it some ot

[Soekris] Debian unstable on 4526

2007-10-06 Thread Esteban Ribičić
hi list, been using my 4526 with netbsd for some time, dont ask me why i cant get fully comfortable with bsd so i tried today installing debian using their netbood installer package...all goes sweet until i have to choose a mirror were to download the packages. the 4626 has one ethernet and wifi