[frgeek-michiana] Re: Possible changes to how-to
- From: mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 07:55:15 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
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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