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Linux on the DOC (modified 0 times) Subject1 Can we get linux on the DOC? 05-03-2000 18:25:49

RE:Linux on the DOC (modified 0 times) Dr. Evil Read posts please.. QNX and even Windows/DOS can be put on the DOC 05-03-2000 18:43:12

RE:Linux on the DOC (modified 0 times) 010101 Does anyone hava a linux image for the DOC on the WS? And if they do can they put it on a FTP somewhere? 05-04-2000 06:15:53

RE:Linux on the DOC (modified 0 times) paulio Again, please read posts. 05-04-2000 06:30:51

RE:Linux on the DOC (modified 0 times) Zonyl Has anyone gotten patched lilo that comes with the DOC utilities to work?? I tried it and it would not load claiming "cannot execute binary". Which gave me the impression that the bin was corrupt,re-downloaded it, and it still wont work. Grr. 05-04-2000 11:34:36

RE:Linux on the DOC (modified 0 times) paulio The patched version of lilo is called plilo. I thought that the info was on this bbs but now I can't find it. I did a search on http://www.google.com (for plilo and diskonchip) and got this address ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/etlinux/etlinux-1.2/ I hope this helps. 05-04-2000 13:17:13

RE:Linux on the DOC (modified 0 times) paulio >> Does anyone hava a linux image for the DOC on the WS? And if they do can they put it on a FTP somewhere? > Again, please read posts. I have to apologize. I can no longer find any of this info anywhere on this bbs, either manually or by searching. I thought I saw it here. Is it just me or are posts disappearing? 05-04-2000 13:30:01

RE:Linux on the DOC (modified 0 times) MoTLD I think they are, maybe even entire threads. Hardware1 had posted something about all WS kits now coming with resistors and headers, and I had replied asking if they could be purchased separately, but now the thread seems to have dissappeared (searched for all of Hardware1's posts in WS areas, not there). What's the deal? -Mo 05-04-2000 13:34:31

RE:Linux on the DOC (modified 0 times) tkreagan Profile You can get linux on the DOC. I am doing it right now. Be aware - it is a tought motherf**cker to use. I have bought one of the m-systems eval boards so that I can prepare it on another machine. All of the instructions, though, are available at the msystems web site - http://www.m-sys.com/ One caveat - the instructions for the lilo.conf are completely wrong - if you "append = auto" and "linear" your plilo, it won't boot. I am working on getting a version working based on LEM that uses the framebuffer, alsa drivers, and includes samba support. Then, I am going to make it a read-only distrib. I cannot, however, redistribute the kernel, because the GPL prevents me from including a binary driver in the kernel and I cannot provide the source code. Sorry. 05-04-2000 14:12:36

RE:Linux on the DOC (modified 0 times) Zonyl Do tell on how you got lilo to go!!! I have been fighting with recompiling the lilo source code over and over again.. Each time I try when it boot off of the doc I get a "L 00 00 00 ..." which indicates that lilo is on the mbr but the geometry is messed! I got a LEM distro on the DOC, can mount it from the HD as ext2 etc.. I used the plilo from the DOC utils, tried manually applying the patch myself to the lilo-2.1 code, and have dorked around with the geometry.c code to no avail. (cant boot it, just get that "L 00 00 00") I would really appreciate any help you can give me! -Zonyl zonyl@hotmail.com 05-04-2000 17:34:57

RE:Linux on the DOC (modified 0 times) Dr. Evil I had the same problem but a guy pointed out to me that LILO doesn't like hard drives with large geometries.. don't understand why it shouldn't boot with the DOC though. 05-04-2000 17:40:33

RE:Linux on the DOC (modified 0 times) tkreagan Profile Well, I have ####ed my system up while it is on the DOC 3 times, so I am pretty good at getting it to work. Exact procedures (using another machine with rdhat 6.1 and eval board. to flash bios of chip, i use dos on a floppy. in dos dformat /win:d000 /s:doc2.fff (i copied doc2.fff to the root of a) then, reboot my kernel with DOC support compiled in (did you mknod /dev/fla b 62 0, mknod /dev/fla1 b 62 1, etc.?) i fdsik /dev/fla per instructions. i reboot, then mke2fs /dev/fla1, mount /dev/fla1 /doc then i unzip the lem distrib in the root of /doc i copy the kernel (make bzImage so its smaller) to /doc/boot, the boot.b file from the doc utils to /doc/boot, plilo goes in /doc/sbin, i replace fsck, fsck.e2fs, fsck.minix, insmod, lsmod, rmmod, moddep, and modprobe on the distrib (careful not to overwrite /doc/bin/busybox. lilo.conf as per the instructions from m-sys, but leave out append=auto and linear. the image should come from /doc/boot/bzImage in /doc/etc/lilo.conf then, i /doc/sbin/plilo -C /doc/etc/lilo.conf -i /doc/boot/boot.b -m /doc/boot/map and that's it. (make sure that you rdev /doc/boot/bzImage /dev/fla1) reboot to dos, dupdate /win:d000 /s:doc121.exb /FIRST then i pop it out, bring to websurfer, pop in, and reboot. hope this helps. please let me know if you have any more questions. tom 05-05-2000 02:36:06

RE:Linux on the DOC (modified 0 times) Chagrin Did you get this working? I can not seem to compile a kernel that'll work w/ the DOC. I'm bugging the Jailbait guys to put DOC support in their image - man would that make things easier. 05-22-2000 06:25:21

RE:Linux on the DOC (modified 0 times) Billy-Bob Does someone have a working Linux image posted somewhere that we can download and use? 05-23-2000 09:55:18

RE:Linux on the DOC (modified 0 times) movits tkreagan: The GPL doesn't prevent you from including a binary only driver w/ your kernel dist. It might make you make it only available as a module, but I'm not sure. I'm interested in working with you on making a linux dist for the DOC. email me if you'd like to collaborate mordyovits@yahoo.com 05-23-2000 11:49:03

RE:Linux on the DOC (modified 0 times) gregster I was looking on the net and found this site. Will it help with the GPL ? http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/ 05-23-2000 18:58:30

RE:Linux on the DOC (modified 0 times) Ledfoot Just wondering if you guys have gotten anywhere with this? I'm itching to get Linux running on the DOC so I can use it as a MP3 player and can ditch the crappy little HD and just load my MP3's via NFS from my main server machine via a PCI nic instead of having to have the ISA HD controller in there and USB ethernet. What can I do to help you guys out? I'm still learning my way around Linux system architecture, but I'm learning (How-To's are your friend... hehe) Let me know! crazybiker_ga@yahoo.com 06-17-2000 15:50:06

any progress yet? :) (modified 0 times) ciaran just popping this back up to top... ciaran 06-25-2000 12:15:45

RE:Linux on the DOC (modified 0 times) Ledfoot Well, I'm partway there.... I can get the DOC to act as a drive on a version of Redhat 6.2 running off a HDD. I then went through the proceedure to put the system onto the DOC and did the DUPDATE command from dos afterwards. When I go to boot up the system though, I get a "Failure when doing a filesystem check on the root file system" type error and everything halts. If I put in the root password, I can get in and do some stuff, but it's not a fully functioning system. If I try to continue it reboots the box. I'm getting kinda stumped on this one... I'm also talking with jbaitis (the head of the Jailbait project) about helping put DOC support into Jailbait. Unfortunately, they've upgraded to the 2.4.x test release kernels and I have not been able to get the patches for DOC support to compile up correctly in those. I just shot Jeff a message asking if there was any reason (other than USB support) why I couldn't revert back to 2.2.x in the Jailbait 5.1 release. Hopefully I'll hear something back from him soon. If anybody has some ideas, drop me a line... crazybiker_ga@yahoo.com 06-26-2000 07:15:27

RE:Linux on the DOC (modified 0 times) Ledfoot Ok, well, I got in touch with the Jailbait gang again. They can't go back to a previous version of the Kernel (2.2.x) because they use the devfs and usb support from 2.3/2.4. I then contacted the guys at m-systems (makers of the DOC) and asked when they would have patches ready for the 2.3/2.4 kernels. They replied back this morning to tell me that they have no firm ETA, but that there was a new set of patches expected sometime in July. So... back to the drawing board for me... Does anybody have a clue why I keep getting a failure during boot off the doc when I get to the Root filesystem check? 06-27-2000 07:57:12

RE:Linux on the DOC (modified 0 times) -=tkr=- try recreating your partitions. odds are that when you booted up incorrectly partition info got hosed. when i have done that, it has worked for me to just reformat the doc and recreate the partitions. 07-04-2000 08:35:25

RE:Linux on the DOC (modified 0 times) spdracer5g It looks like I am a little to late with this info, but here goes I was looking for something else and happened to come across these and thought they might be useful to somebody here. Most of the info was over my windows influenced head, but it seems that these folks have a pretty solid linux designed just for a flash disk, or DOC. http://www.lineo.com http://www.thinlinux.org 07-17-2000 12:29:38

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