[Voyage-linux] Different PXE Server

[Adrian Reyer]

Hi John,

I really dislike expert exchange as it is usually high in search
rankings and low on useful information. And I quite hate having to read
through all old mails again because they are always attached at the end
with your posts.

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 07:24:16PM -0600, John Schultz wrote:
> Alright.... Here is where I stand....
> 1. I have DamnSmallLinux PXE loading and I am able to get a bash
> shell.
> 2. I have a 212MB squash (Voyage One Current v0.7.5) file that I need
> access to and can not package the DSL image with, so I am going to
> need to
> Samba share it from my Debian Server
> 3. Install Voyage from the Samba share to the CF card on the Alex 3D3
> running DSL PXE.
> 4. Reboot and in theory, this issue can FINALLY be closed.

What has been the problem with your samba share? An actual error
message? Have you tried to mount it with 'nounix' options?
When you mounted the file system containing the iso with voyage, what's
the problem with just doing 'mount -o loop /path/to/image
/your/preferred/location'?

> "mount -t nfs4 -o proto=tcp,port=2049 debian:/voyage-one-current
> /mnt/voyage", I get an error message stating that the module nfs4 is
issing
> (also tried nfs2 and nfs3).

The filesystem is 'nfs', you get to 2, 3 or 4 by using 'vers='. I
suggest a line like
mount -t nfs tcp,sec=sys,nfsvers=3 debian:/voyage-one-current
/mnt/voyage

> I just tried to fdisk and cfdisk from the alix.3d3 board and the
> cfdisk
> gives me an error stating that it could not read the disk (I also
> tried
> /dev/sda, /dev/sda1, etc...) and fdisk only displays additional
> options.

If it is an unpartitioned CF-card, udev might fail to actually create
the device nodes in /dev. either partition it via some CF-card-adaptor
beforehand or try and create the right device e.g. with
mknod /dev/sda b 8 0

I won't answer to further posts containing the whole attached thread
again.

Regards,
        Adrian
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