Compact FlashForum: HD Install Topic: Compact Flash started by: caulktel Posted by caulktel on Mar. 02 2004,17:10
Hi, I just bought a Ibm Netvista thin client that boots from a compct flash card. Has anybody had any exsperience getting anything like this to boot? The only other way I came see is to do a network boot, which I'm not sure how to do either. I want use this to stream audio from Xmms.
Posted by vk2emq on Mar. 03 2004,05:33
See my reply to booting from iso1. You need to get access to a dos - win9x machine format the flash card with FAT format and add dos system files to make flash bootable. Try to boot the flash card into dos - you should get the a: prompt -a little retro I know .... but if you got this far you should be able to boot DSL from the flash ... 2. you now need to know what linux device the flash card is ; boot from a DSL CD with the flash in place ( having first set the bios to boot from CD as highest priority device) and note the reference to the flash card in the boot messages - it is most likely /dev/sda1 - if the messages are not on the screen long enough to see , once DSL has finished booting from CD open a terminal screen and use the command dmesg | less to view the messages 3. having established the device name for the flashcard copy the knoppix, vmlinuz, miniroot, loadlin files etc as per my previous posting and insert the correct reference for the flash device in the loadlin boot batch file, eg root=/dev/sda1 4. as per previous posting I've used this procedure to boot from Flash with either a USB adapter or an IDE adapter to a VIA EPIA-M motherboard vk2emq John Umina Beach Australia |