[Wizard] Re: Netway "Wizards" (was: Re: [plug] D-Link DSL200 Linx support)

[Patrick Tehvand]

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On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 06:19, Bernard Blackham wrote:

> Just FYI, this is what I'm currently doing for a woody install:
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>  - boot them up into RH6.2, download an etherboot image[1]
>  - cat it > /dev/hda
>  - reboot with your pre-prepared dhcp & tftpserver serving a debian
>    install image[2]
>  - use the rescue console to repartition and format the drive
>  - wget & untar a debian skeleton system onto the drive[3]
>  - edit lilo.conf, fstab, and hostname
>  - run lilo
>  - reboot :)
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> These steps might take some practice to get right, but if anybody
> can find me in UCC during the day I'm happy to do them :)
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> > [1] The hard drive in my Wizards were held in with Allan key screws; a
> > friend of mine got his with normal Phillips heads, so perhaps I was jus=
t
> > lucky (-:
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> I've been carrying one round in my pocket lately - they've come in
> very handy :)
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> I'm working on making a fully netbootable X-terminal[4], similar to
> LTSP, but without the need for an NFS server - X server et al is all
> contained within the initrd. It's currently using the VESA server,
> because nothing else has yet worked, but I realised I have one more
> driver to try (X SVGA 3.3.1 linked against libc5 is claimed to work... :)
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> Followups on the wizard list, cc'd (apologies for the cross-post :)=20
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> Regards,
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> Bernard.

Hey Bernard, This sounds like an ideal "web terminal" box for use in a
library at a school. I'd love to see it in action when it is all up and
running (?plug talk).

cheers

Patrick

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> [1] http://dagobah.ucc.asn.au/wizard/netboot/etherboot.rom
> [2] http://dagobah.ucc.asn.au/wizard/debinstall.img
> [3] http://davidb.ucc.asn.au/wizard/wizard.tgz prepared by DavidB.
> [4] http://dagobah.ucc.asn.au/wizard/xterm/
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Patrick Tehvand
IT Department,
Carey Baptist College
http://www.carey.wa.edu.au

Member - Society of Linux Professionals (WA)=20

support running 2.4.20-8 kernel on Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike).
07:59:53 up 3 days, 15:24, 5 users, load average: 0.20, 0.23, 0.19

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