[frgeek-michiana] Re: Possible changes to how-to

At 10:49 AM 3/11/04 -0500, you wrote:
Possible changes to howto.

If I remember correctly, Mike booted knoppix from CD so he would have USB support for the CF reader/writer. We then copied the image we copied from the Floppy to the CF.

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/sda

Mike told me he used a derivative of Knoppix (Damn Small Linux). Either way the goal is the same -- to gain control of a usb port. So I've emphasized the goal and offered Knoppix and D.S.Linux as alternative methods depending on the hardware resources at hand. D.S.Linux should be useful on low resource boxen.

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

I added the code above and illustrated copying the bootrom image from the hd of an LTSP server and from a floppy. I also noticed that the howto example code for copying the image from the hd to the floppy has no "of=" argument, just two "if=" arguments. Corrected that.


The size of the CF should not matter unless you want to install linux on it. What matters is the Ram that is installed. You could use a 2MB CF as long as it is supported by the netvista.

Yeah. Wondered about this myself and asked Mike to comment before I changed it. You and Mike agree so I corrected the text.

Juice and Mike -- Thanks for reading the howto critically.

Everyone please check the revised doc again. As soon as we are satisfied with the text, I will do the following.
1. Add links to Mike's photo images.
2. Solicit your comments again.
3. Publish the final draft on the FGM server.
4. Announce the howto on lists: LTSP, K12LTSP, FREE GEEK Portland and MLUG.
5. Submit the howto to the Linux Documentation Project after time to gather additional feedback.

Tom




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