[Soekris] installing linux on net4801

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Let's say I just got my first Soekris in the mail and I've never done  
any of this before. Like it or not if I'm Joe average I have a  
Windows PC somewhere. Past that it's tough to guess what I do or do  
not have lying around the house. Simply getting serial I/O going is  
not trivial (is this the right cable or the wrong one ....). The more  
steps to follow and things to install the more chances of a simple  
stupid error. Cascaded stupid errors can be very aggravating  ....   
With no "stable base" to start from things can be more difficult than  
they should be.

It would be very nice to have a few "cookbooks" for this kind of  
thing. The form might be "use this terminal program , short pins 2  
and 3 together and type to check the software".  The software  
distributions have information scattered about in a lot of places.  
It's not particularly easy to pull it all together first time around.  
There are just enough odd things about the Soekris boards that it  
might be worth doing. I still hold my breath each time I grab a new  
flash card until I see which disk number it's going to boot as on  
each board ...

Bob Camp



On Jul 3, 2007, at 3:01 AM, Bill Maas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I hope I didn't offend anyone with my possibly somewhat harsh tirade
> against burning CF cards externally yesterday. Meanwhile, an
> installation procedure for linux that in my view is both the most
> standard and easiest to follow, has been bubbling up from the depth of
> my memory.
> ...................................