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loading Linux on the I-opener (modified 0 times) sycohen Profile | Email I currently have 2 I-openers. One is running WIN-ME and has a 6 gig toshiba laptop drive. Im using a Tennmax fan to cool the CPU. I have a second unit that, at this point, just has a re-flashed bios, (back to v1 or v2) so that it will recognize and boot up a hard drive when attached. I have not done anything to the Sandisk. I would like, if possible to load any version of windows and once my network connection is established (linksys USB/enet dongle) do a remote install of whatever version of Linux would allow this. I have followed many of the threads and there doesn't seem to be any readily agreed method of loading Linux. Or even which version of linux would support the i-opener hardware. Can anyone suggest what would be the best way of implementing a linux port to the i-opener. I',m not looking for small and elegant, but a good solid version which supports efficient web surfing through a usb/ethernet port through a Win-ME machine which goes to a cable modem (ICS). I have some Unix experience, but that goes back about 15 years to 68000 ports of AT&T and BSD. I still consider Unix the greatest game of adventure ever written. SY Cohen 11-07-2000 13:35:01

RE:loading Linux on the I-opener (modified 0 times) idxman Profile | Email I recently installed Debian 2.2 and have had no problems.. The install was done on a desktop PC with an IDE converter for the laptop drive. <<- standard type of install for an iopener. USB was slightly tedious to get working in linux, but its not too bad. Other than that I just apt-get anything else I need. I also copied win98 cabs onto the HD and did a win98 install on the io itself. Again, no problems there either.. -r 11-27-2000 21:46:10

RE:loading Linux on the I-opener (modified 0 times) r_fl_z Profile | Email Idxman: I need to get Linux v5.2 installed on an iO. This normally installs via a cdrom and floppy. Are you saying that you did the Linux installation on the pc, and then transfered the drive to the iO? Does this cause any problems with hardware detection during the install? I ask because it is my understanding that it was because of this issue that Windows is generally not installed that way, but rather as you describe, by copying the CABs to the iO and installing there. If the Linux install can be completed on the PC, it would be cake. Thanks 12-30-2000 04:25:17

RE:loading Linux on the I-opener (modified 0 times) idxman Profile | Email That's right: I did the install on another PC then moved the drive to the IO. The USB ethernet wasn't that bad either.. It was more of a pain just transferring the necessary files and waiting for the slow i-o to compile a new kernel. Oddly enough I didn't have any hardware detection problems, so hopefully the next install will go as well. -r 01-10-2001 20:10:57

RE:loading Linux on the I-opener (modified 0 times) leighklotz Profile I install Linux on a laptop, a 133 MHz Pentium, and then put the pegasus.o module in as a module, not compiled into the kernel. I have XFree86 init files, etc. if anyone needs them; there are also some posted on this bboard. Or see http://graflex.org/klotz/io for my files. 01-11-2001 14:17:34

RE:loading Linux on the I-opener (modified 0 times) scotty Profile | Email Ok, I'm looking for someone that may have a small (1GB) hard drive that they want to sell me with Red hat Linux pre-installed. I plan on networking the iopener off of my LinuxPPC box, and I don't have an i386 box except at work. So the install will be "interesting". If anybody has any ideas or has done this before, please let me know! The easiest thing will be to take a drive to work and install linux there... 01-16-2001 08:42:00

RE:loading Linux on the I-opener (modified 0 times) Linuxguru Profile | Email For a slackware install, you can copy the entire disk set directory (\slakware) to a sub-directory in a DOS FAT partition. This can be done either by physically taking the drive to a desktop machine; or by mounting it in an IOpener, booting to DOS and using interlnk/intersvr; or by any other means (USB ethernet on OSR2.5 or later). Linux can be then installed using loadlin.exe, a standard boot kernel (say bare.gz) and the color.gz installer root disk image, using a DOS BAT file or command line of the form: c:\linux\loadlin.exe c:\linux\bare.exe root=/dev/ramdisk0 rw initrd.img=c:\linux\color.gz Look at the loadlin documentation for the exact parameters. This will boot the kernel and take you into the slackware installer, from where you can choose the option to install from a hard-disk partition. 01-16-2001 11:04:29

RE:loading Linux on the I-opener (modified 0 times) nullman Profile For installing Windows 98, I like this method: Attached the hard disk to a regular PC (as the primary master drive). Put the Win98 CD in and boot from it. Go into DOS mode (using F8 I believe). Use FDISK to partition your hard disk. Use format to format it. Copy the win98 directory from the CD to the hard disk. Then reboot using the CD and do the install. When the first reboot happens, power off the machine, move the hard disk to the i-opener and continue there. You will have all of the needed files on the drive. When prompted for the CD, just browse to the c:\win98 directory. These instructions are from memory, and it has been a while, so forgive me if I've made any errors. 01-27-2002 12:57:08

RE:loading Linux on the I-opener (modified 0 times) Pinnacom Profile I loaded my HD from my desktop too, but LILO compains and halts... Could you show us your IO's lilo.conf ? 02-14-2002 09:40:52

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