Well...not having the flexibility to run one of the most common Linux distros puts a damper on the whole thing.
But I thank you very much for your feedback. I guess it is easy to image a standard install onto these CF cards using dd. -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Kaufman [mailto:matt...@matthew.at] Sent: Thursday, 5 November 2009 10:44 a.m. To: Yakout Esmat Cc: 'Bill Maas'; soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com Subject: Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS Yakout Esmat wrote: > Hi Bill, > > Thanks for your prompt answer. > > It's a shame that we are limited to kind of older Oss like CentOS4 for > example. But as you said, this post is quite old and could be outdated. > Let's see if anyone has an update. > The issue is 686 vs 586. Ubuntu has much newer 586 releases than CentOS does, just FYI. > I agree CF is probably the most convenient, but how do you get any OS on any > CF before installing it onto the board? > 1. Boot from network and write to the CF, or 2. Put the CF via a PATA or SATA adapter into another machine and install onto it or, 3. Put the CF via a PATA or SATA adapter into another machine and dd another disk or image onto it or, 4. Put the CF via a USB adapter into another machine and dd another disk or image onto it My personal favorite is that I run a VMWare system that has a disk a little smaller than the CF card, I install on VMWare, set everything up just write, then use dd to copy the virtual drive right over to the CF card inserted into a USB adapter. a 2 or 4 GB card takes less than a minute, and you can tweak settings for each one if you're making a few dozen at a time. > Our software is loaded onto DVD and is about 2GB in size and i thought that > booting from the external DVD would work... > Won't. But you can get that 2GB onto a CF card pretty trivially. Matthew Kaufman _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
