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

I will try to edit the pictures for web use asap (640x480, reduce colors, 
circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each 
one was to be used as evidence against us).  

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mar 11, 2004 6:52 PM
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [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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