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grossjo

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Posted: May 15 2006,10:23

Quote (Guest @ Oct. 17 2005,04:26)

ok, back to the original topic. dsl on n2200.

i managed to get dsl started on n2200 using nfsroot (don't have any cf card lying around). 2 problems so far.

@ thedevil,

i am using linux2200.0.2.1. booting off a CF-Card. As i am missing some apps i would like to have DSL itself work. Did you make any progress?

Regards;
Joachim@grossjo.de

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Posted: May 29 2006,13:36

I use the Netvista N2200 WBT. They have only a 16MB flash. Soo I used the original flash for kernel&root and an extra USB flash for /usr/ - everything works as it should. Theoretically you can even use a 4GB USB flash or an 1TB USB harddrive :cool:

Rightnow I'm building an mini firewall distribution with traffic shaping and all that kind of stuff - too bad, that the N2200 supports only upto 256MB+32MB RAM(for SQUID web cache)

The http://packages.debian.org/oldstable is very usefull(top, mc, iptables, mpg123 and etc.) :blues:

DavidSFN

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Posted: June 12 2006,14:16

Okay I am at a total loss as to where to ask this. I have been playing with linux2200 for days now and no matter what I do it always fails to load X. All I get is tux with a flashing dot under it. If I try to startx from the busybox terminals I get complaints of missing libraries. I have built on both versions 0.1 and 0.2.1. Many times, I also once put links in for the missing libraries only to be told there was no variables for startX and fluxbox had no server to connect to.

I have been doing all my transferring from a ubuntu liveCD as root (hard to actually get those liveCDs to work properly in root)

Has anyone else seen this problem or is there something obvious I am missing? I would appreciate even a single word of help as I am totally stuck.

deryk

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Posted: July 04 2006,23:39

ok, so I have a IBM 2200 thin client too.

I bought it long before I read any of these posts with the same brainy idea as all of you must have had. I figured install DSL onto my 128mb CF (what I had laying around) and slip it into the cf slot on the thin client and like magic it would work.

As we have all learned that was apparently not the case.

I have gotten (finally) the so-called "linux-2200" installed on the CF and the machine will boot from it.

However, the problem is there isn't much a person can do with that OS.

I love DSL and it has a lot of great programs, is there anyway possible that this can work for me to slip DSL on the same CF card and some how get into it through linux-2200 once it's booted? Or is there some magic way one of you wizards have gotten this figured out?

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

PS, one of the programs in particular I need to run is SAMBA (in order to play music files from my server). AMSN would be nice too.

ans

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Posted: Feb. 02 2007,22:56

i just bought two 8363-EXX from ebay, updated the firmware to the current version and tried to run linux-2200.
the one that has cyrix printed on its chips works fine.
after the firmware update it booted straight into linux. i already tried to boot linux from cf before the update, i guess it just kept the old settings in nvram.
the other one is an older national semiconductor labeled version. updating from cf worked fine. for some reason however it won't boot from cf. it says something like "no flash card detected."
also i cannot change the boot file path in the setup menu, when i hit enter in the main menu the option disappears.
i'm using only one cf card here, so the card is fine. the firmware versions are the same. the hardware should be identical. updating from cf worked flawlessly. wtf!!#§$

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