[Soekris] installing linux on net4801

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Ok, so maybe it's not exactly Joe average. It's certainly not Joe  
I've never done anything inside a PC in my life, or Joe who has  
trouble opening up email.

The guy may not be Joe who has an extensive network background  
either. If the objective is a box to do sensor monitoring or simple  
machine control, network experience is certainly not a pre- 
requisite.  Best guess would be that he's pretty much dead if he's  
never even heard of any form of Unix.

The issue is that you want to get the box up and running, so you can  
get on with the real task at hand. The task is never just booting the  
box. There's always something that you actually want to *do* with the  
box. Any time spent on initial load or to get it to boot the kernel  
is time better spent elsewhere. That goes double for the time spend  
troubleshooting an obvious error. TFTP is not something most of us  
set up every day ....

The kind of thing I'm talking about is not going to run to multiple  
pages. It may be more than three lines long though. It is going to be  
different say for FreeBSD / Nanobsd image,  than for a Gentoo install  
from scratch. The people who most need it are starting out from  
scratch. It would be good to have it where they can find it easily.

Fun stuff

Bob Camp




On Jul 3, 2007, at 10:35 AM, der Mouse wrote:

>> 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.
>
> "Joe average" does not even know Soekris exists, much less have any  
> use
> for their machines.
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