RE: Kernel 2.6

Marty,

This may or may not be useful - I may have missed if you wanted a
particular flavour of Linux...

I have had no problems installing Fedora Core 1
[http://fedora.redhat.com/] from a USB CD-ROM drive (note this is a 2.4
kernel). I haven't done an install of Fedora Core 2 (2.6 kernel).
However, once I had Fedora Core 1 installed, I have since upgraded the
kernel to 2.6.

Myles.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marty Hillman [mailto:mehillman@comcast.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 June 2004 1:48 PM
> To: Myles Greber; tc1000-linux@handhelds.org
> Subject: RE: [Tc1000-linux] Kernel 2.6
>
>
> I actually have two different ones. Unfortunately, I do not
> have the $350
> multibay from Compaq, but the ones I have are USB2 compliant.
>
> Whenever the kernel loads, it tries to re-initialize USB
> devices causing it
> to forget where the CD drive is, where the keyboard is and
> any other device
> connected through a USB. The same can be said with Mandrake, SuSE,
> DamnSmallLinux, Knoppix-STD and Knoppix. Similar problems occur when
> running the system restore if you are not using the Compaq
> branded multibay.
> It will boot and begin the restore from one device, but the
> module load
> breaks the connection to USB. You have to connect the second
> drive to the
> other USB before the module completes the initialization, but
> after it dumps
> the devices in order to be able to use it. It must contain a
> duplicate CD
> of the same image in the other drive.
>
> Sound like too much trouble? I just made it most of the way
> through the
> modifications of DamnSmallLinux to make a USB thumb drive
> bootable. SuSe
> has no cloop support, so I have failed that path as well.
>
> Anyone want to buy a tablet?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Myles Greber [mailto:m.greber@cqu.edu.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 10:37 PM
> To: Marty Hillman; tc1000-linux@handhelds.org
> Subject: RE: [Tc1000-linux] Kernel 2.6
>
> Hi Marty,
>
> Do you have access to a USB CD-ROM drive? TC1000 will boot
> and install
> from it!
>
> Myles.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marty Hillman [mailto:mehillman@comcast.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:24 PM
> > To: 'Mathieu BOIS'; tc1000-linux@handhelds.org
> > Subject: RE: [Tc1000-linux] Kernel 2.6
> >
> >
> > Thanks. I will try to wade my way through the French (drawing on my
> > experience with Latin, Spanish and that one year of French in
> > junior high
> > school at the age of 12). ;-)
> >
> > So far, I have been able to do the Knoppix terminal server
> thing, but:
> > 1) you are tethered to a cable
> > 2) no pen support
> > 3) no access to the local hard drive
> > 4) no root access.
> >
> > I think this is getting to be too much. I am going to give
> > it one more stab
> > and then throw the damned thing away.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tc1000-linux-bounces@handhelds.org
> > [mailto:tc1000-linux-bounces@handhelds.org] On Behalf Of
> Mathieu BOIS
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 5:37 PM
> > To: tc1000-linux@handhelds.org
> > Subject: Re: [Tc1000-linux] Kernel 2.6
> >
> > Hi Marty,
> >
> > > I am not a developer. Just a lowly network admin. It took
> > me months to
> > > figure out how to run a system restore on the TC1000
> > without buying the
> > > $350 multibay (two USB CD-ROM drives). I still have not
> > figured out how
> > to
> > > get linux on the box.
> > >
> > > I saw in the BIOS that there is a way to boot from
> > CompactFlash, but I
> > have
> > > not been able to boot from anything other than the HDD.
> >
> > You can see on my web site how to do it.
> > The page is not complete, but the important steps are there, and
> > detailed.
> > It's made for a Mandrake 9.1 but it should work for other
> > distributions too
> > (but not Slackware I'm afraid [because it's not installable
> > from CDROM, it
> > needs a floppy disk as far as I remember...]).
> >
> > The idea is to have another machine (called "the
> > server"), that will
> > have the
> > content of all the CDs of the Linux distribution on the
> > server, to share it
> > by NFS, and to boot the TabletPC in PXE mode (this means through the
> > network)
> > on the image that is used to boot the Linux distribution CD.
> >
> > My web page that explain this (in french but should be
> > understandable if
> > translated with http://babelfish.altavista.com/)
> > http://boism.nerim.net/TC1000/Linux/Mandrake/index91.php
> >
> > The web page that made it possible in my mind:
> > http://81.5.185.34/tc-one-thousand/software.html
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > Mathieu BOIS
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Received on Tue Jun 22 23:58:42 2004