Re: [Soekris] Ubuntu installer menu flips out during pxe install on net5501

2010-10-27 Thread Ken Murphy
I just installed voyage linux and it went beautifully! thanks for the tip. ken On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 6:45 AM, David Coppa wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > >> Can you work with Debian?  If so, Voyage Linux install scripts give >> the option to create image for both

Re: [Soekris] Ubuntu installer menu flips out during pxe install on net5501

2010-10-26 Thread Matt Lawrence
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Ken Murphy wrote: > I'm definitely not particularly attached to ubunutu. Voyage looks > promising... I'll give that a try. It's pretty easy to set up a CentOS install that doesn't require any console interaction. -- Matt It's not what I know that counts. It's what I can re

Re: [Soekris] Ubuntu installer menu flips out during pxe install on net5501

2010-10-26 Thread Ken Murphy
I'm definitely not particularly attached to ubunutu. Voyage looks promising... I'll give that a try. Thanks! ken > Can you work with Debian?  If so, Voyage Linux install scripts give > the option to create image for both Soekris and ALIX boards; grub and > /etc/inittab entries pre-configured for

Re: [Soekris] Ubuntu installer menu flips out during pxe install on net5501

2010-10-26 Thread David Coppa
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > Can you work with Debian?  If so, Voyage Linux install scripts give > the option to create image for both Soekris and ALIX boards; grub and > /etc/inittab entries pre-configured for serial port.  It pretty much > works out of the box (from perso

Re: [Soekris] Ubuntu installer menu flips out during pxe install on net5501

2010-10-26 Thread Arun Khan
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Ken Murphy wrote: > I will use it to control a camera for a multi-year time-lapse project. >  I've set up such a system for an earlier project: > > http://www.murphlab.com/hsky/ > > I need something low power, solid state, and compact so that it will > fit in an o

Re: [Soekris] Ubuntu installer menu flips out during pxe install on net5501

2010-10-25 Thread Ken Murphy
I will use it to control a camera for a multi-year time-lapse project. I've set up such a system for an earlier project: http://www.murphlab.com/hsky/ I need something low power, solid state, and compact so that it will fit in an outdoor enclosure, and can be remotely accessed, so the soekris w/

Re: [Soekris] Ubuntu installer menu flips out during pxe install on net5501

2010-10-25 Thread Paul Bartell
This (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/OverSSH) might be an alternative to installing over a serial console... On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Ken Murphy wrote: > I gave up on my 2-day attempt to install ubuntu via debootstrap, and > have set up a pxe environment.  I've been follow

Re: [Soekris] Ubuntu installer menu flips out during pxe install on net5501

2010-10-25 Thread Arun Khan
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Ken Murphy wrote: > I gave up on my 2-day attempt to install ubuntu via debootstrap, and > have set up a pxe environment.  I've been following this tutorial, to > the letter (even the ubuntu version, 7.04 Feisty Fawn): > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Soekris > How are

[Soekris] Ubuntu installer menu flips out during pxe install on net5501

2010-10-25 Thread Ken Murphy
I gave up on my 2-day attempt to install ubuntu via debootstrap, and have set up a pxe environment. I've been following this tutorial, to the letter (even the ubuntu version, 7.04 Feisty Fawn): https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Soekris I can get the installer to start, which successfully detects the hardw