[Soekris] Has anyone ever gotten m0n0Wall loaded on the Soekris net4526-30?

[David Witten]

Yes indeed .. 

The userid/password  root/password worked as indicated and the rest went 
exactly as described.

Though I haven't sorted out the complete mess I've made while working on 
this, the essential elements have been:

Set up DHCP and PXEboot on a BSD box essentially as described in the 
M0n0Wall Hacker's guide
 replace the pxeboot image file with the one from OpenBSD (I used one 
from 3.5)
extract the bsd.SOEKRIS4501 extracted from the 
flashboot-0.5-bindist.tar.gz file
create the  /tftpboot/etc/boot.conf :

stty com0 19200
set tty com0
boot tftp:/bsd.SOEKRIS4501

and follow the rest of the instructions Stuart has kindly posted at:

   http://spacehopper.org/m0n0wall-4526-by-flashboot.txt

being sure to read the all the way through before beginning.

Thanks Stuart and everyone else who has assisted me in my ordeal!

-- Dave




Stuart Henderson wrote:

>>Ah! The password was a big help.  I ignored the oddities  I saw
>>and executed the rest of the commands & now it works!  Completely!
>>    
>>
>
>Ahh brilliant - what a relief! The "No flash device found" is because
>you didn't have a UFS partition existing on the flash. If you 'boot
>f0' into flashboot now, it should find m0n0wall and mount as /flash -
>this gives you a simple way of uploading a newer mfsroot.gz without
>touching the rest, which may simplify things slightly if you want to
>modify m0n0wall later (it's a gzipped dd image, which you can examine
>by uncompressing, vnconfig'ing and mounting - probably easiest done
>on a standard FreeBSD box).
>
>Would you mind a quick reply on the thread in the mailing list just
>to say it works with a note about the password? I think it might be
>helpful for the archives in case anyone else is searching, as I'm
>sure others will follow in your footsteps :-)
>
>enjoy the rest of your weekend!
>Stuart
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