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Network boot off of DOC (modified 0 times) dble Profile From what I've read in the messages, getting Linux on the DOC is a hassle. Etherboot (http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/) allows you to boot off a floppydisk as if you had a network bootrom. What if we did the same thing, except put the files on the DOC The file in etherboot that does this is called "floppyload.bin". Any thoughts about this? thanks. 08-12-2000 21:05:57

RE:Network boot off of DOC (modified 0 times) illc0mmunication Profile I did something like this for my websurfer. I formatted the DOC with DOS and used loadlin.exe to load a kernel and a ramdisk image. I increased the RAM to 32MB to have a large RAM disk because I really didn't want to write to the DOC. Working on modifying Matterhorn LRP distribution ( http://beta.linuxrouter.org ) for it to see the DOC and load the LRP modules from it. I have a 3C905 PCI card and a 3C509 ISA card installed in the riser... Worked pretty good actually, had to remove the AUI port off of the 3C509 card... Not a big deal though. 03-10-2001 19:21:01

RE:Network boot off of DOC (modified 0 times) ttn1 Profile | Email I have the Materhorn LRP with the DOC drivers compiled in. Give me a day or two and I could get the distro placed on my website. I have a link to a very nice write up of the procedure although you have probably already been there. I have my websurfer running LRP off the doc with 2 network cards. It acts as a gateway for my cablemodem. I made up a ssh2 package so that I can run vnc to my internal machines from work. The ssh2 package allows a very nice encrypted ftp link from windows boxes. The GUI is very nice. I also have the seti@home package running. I was running httpd, but now I have my other websurfer running with a 10 GB harddrive for a webserver. Let me know if you want a copy of the compiled kernel. ttn2 03-11-2001 04:25:46

RE:Network boot off of DOC (modified 0 times) ttn1 Profile | Email website is http://kroll.penguinpowered.com/~jjkroll/linux/linux.html ttn2 03-11-2001 04:26:39

RE:Network boot off of DOC (modified 0 times) cedric Profile hey ttn2, Any chance you can put this file online again? I'd love to be able to try this out, but your web page is down. If you could even get it to me another way, I could host it for another month until I lose my permanent connection. :) Thanks 04-30-2001 01:39:13

RE:Network boot off of DOC (modified 0 times) ttn1 Profile | Email Sorry justlinux quit doing dynamic ip hosting. Had to get my own domain. New address is http://www.jjkroll.com/~jjkroll/linux/wsp/ I plan to do some updates soon, I just have to find the time. Good Luck. ttn2 04-30-2001 11:38:29

RE:Network boot off of DOC (modified 0 times) petejengkol Profile Hi.. I Have a linux DOC image for websurfer pro , here some Desc: 1)based on redhat 6.2 2) kernel 2.4.3 3) compile 3c503 ethernet into kernel and SB modules in loadable modules. 4) USB support 5) no xwindows Peace Pete PS: I tried to use redhat 7.1, but got some redhat CD problem - can not find files.. bla2.. (I downloaded from FTP site) 05-21-2001 08:24:33

RE:Network boot off of DOC (modified 0 times) ttn1 Profile | Email Pete, What was the final size of your kernel? Just wondering. I may do an update of my LRP distro this summer. Where did you get the DOC drivers for the 2.4 kernel? Are they on the M-Systems site? I haven't been there in a while. Thanks for the info. ttn1 05-21-2001 16:42:46

RE:Network boot off of DOC (modified 0 times) petejengkol Profile ttn1. the size is 923062 Bytes.. exactly.. for the kernel, (NIC 3c505 included) 2.4.3 supports DOC. but DOC utility needed... I d/l it from www.m-sys.com for linux, hope this will help you... Peace Pete 05-21-2001 19:48:43

RE:Network boot off of DOC (modified 0 times) zonyl Profile I just built my own dist for the WSPro that runs off of an NFS mount. Took about 2 weeks of tinkering but I did it with nothing other than 2.4.18-pre3 and a lot of patience. I simply compiled the NFTL drivers, fdisked the DOC into a single partition, mke2fs , dropped onbusybox and libc 2.2, and wrote up a /sbin/init script to mount nfs, pivot_root, and execute the new /sbin/init off the server, and glued it all together with the lilo-mtd version I got from the web. Didnt use a single M-sys software product to go from QNX to Linux. Now if I can just get X 4.x to work better. 03-27-2002 14:59:25

RE:Network boot off of DOC (modified 0 times) VivianC Profile Zonyl, Sounds cool. Any chance of posting a HOW-TO and some files for those of us who are Linux challenged? VivC 03-29-2002 13:15:16

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