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N2800
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Posted: Mar. 18 2005,01:21

On the N2800 that you changed the boot sequence to hard disk whick BIOS version are you using. Mine doesn't appear to be the same. It wants a location and file.

8363

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Posted: Mar. 18 2005,07:51

Quote (Guest @ Mar. 17 2005,20:21)

On the N2800 that you changed the boot sequence to hard disk whick BIOS version are you using. Mine doesn't appear to be the same. It wants a location and file.

N2800,
Machine Type/Model: 8364EXX
Flash EEPROM Revision Leve: NZAA0DAUS
Boot Block Revision Level : NZ0DA
BIOS Date: 10081999

LinuxRocks
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Posted: Mar. 19 2005,09:45

Well.. first I would like to thanks everyone on this post for their time contributed to the knowledge sharing that is the internet. Well done and I would have gotten nowhere without these posts (I have used many of the pointers

).

My contribution will be that I was succesful in running the berios 2200-0.1 from a 1G Extreme flashcard so is seems the NetVista 2200 cx1 can support large cards.

However, (I am still a linux newbie) I see a lot of, what I think are errors, when loading and running apps. Sure it boots the startx ok on boot but for example when running fluxbox error message appear and it seems to only partially work. I read somewhere someone had to tweek it after it was installed but are the messages normal? I wonder if I am missing any symlinks or such (I havent used any of the included apps so I am not familiar with them).

Is this normal due to the striping of content to make it run on a hardware limited machine such as this?

Also, I was able to get this kernal and files to boot accross the lan from my Fedora box NFS server. (same errors so I think it has to do with the stipping and I have to manually run startx)

Cheers!

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Posted: Mar. 19 2005,19:20

LinuxRocks,

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I see a lot of, what I think are errors, when loading and running apps

You are right, there are a lot of error in the Linux2200 .
I just made it "quick and dirty". Sometimes i will clean it up.

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for example when running fluxbox error message appear and it seems to only partially work

Yes, it needs the .fluxbox directory with the files : keys,menu, init and styles.
You can copy them from Debian 3.0 into the root directory of the CF-card.
In the file "ram" yuo must add "
cp -a .fluxbox /mnt
To load the backgrounds you need the command "bsetroot", you can copy it
cp /usr/bin/bsetroot /your-cf-card/usr/bin

LinuxRocks
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Posted: Mar. 19 2005,20:04

8363,

As many have said, your input is greatly appreciated as always!

I will continue to play around with it.

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You are right, there are a lot of error in the Linux2200 .
I just made it "quick and dirty". Sometimes i will clean it up.

Hey no problem, you paved the way for many of us to start our exploration of this. I figured as much but at least now I know it is not what I am doing (installiion, copying of files etc) that is causing the errors. This then lets me move from trying to get it installed properly to putting the focus on settings, configs etc.

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Yes, it needs the .fluxbox directory with the files : keys,menu, init and styles.
You can copy them from Debian 3.0

I guess it is time for me to break out another VM partition for this

Thanks again and I will come back with any info that I feel others can use.

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