From: Steven L. <st...@kr...> - 2004-03-06 18:15:48
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Hi, Can you give the exact error message nbd-client gives? Maybe you started it the wrong way. This is how i started it: server: nbd-server 33221 /usr/diskless/cube.swap client: nbd-client 192.168.2.1 33221 /dev/swap Also make you /dev/swap exists. You create it this way: mknod /dev/swap b 43 0 It is possible you have a new version of the guide and an old version of the nfsroot. The new version of the nfsroot contains a pre-make /dev/swap. Yesterday I also uploaded a debian/unstable(sid) nfsroot. The same guide should apply, I haven't tested it. This is for the people who claim they don't have enough bandwidth or think upgrading from stable(woody) to unstable is hard. About ntpdate, this is a known issue. Use rdate instead. Steven Looman (Steve_-) On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:58:33AM -0600, Adam Thornton wrote: > On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 08:13, Matt Melling wrote: > > I have been looking at the GC-Linux project for a little while now, and I > > have not got round to buying the Broadband Adapter and PSO yet (Waiting > > for them on eBay :-P), but I was wondering, how do you enter data straight > > to the cube, like is there a keyboard you can get or something? > > There is a keyboard produced (for PSO), and there is also a PS/2-to-GC > keyboard adapter. I don't have either yet, but network access works > quite well. > > Has anyone else had trouble with nbd? I can't get it to work; I can get > nbd-server running on any number of machines and architectures here > (cygwin, Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, OS/X), and clearly *some* communication > is happening, since instead of "Connection Refused" I get "NBD: So such > device or address" (I think; I'm not near my cube at the moment). NBD > does appear to be compiled into the kernel. > > I'm using the Debian root FS from 2/29 or so (btw: a neat little trick: > if you install ntpdate and then modify the start script to manually set > the date to 1/1/2004 before running ntpdate, you have a clock at > startup, (I don't know how well it tracks real time, though). > If you don't manually set the clock to the right ballpark, Linux decides > that some time in 1936 is closer to 1/1/1970 than some time in 2004 is, > so you end up with a Depression-era Gamecube). > > Adam > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Gc-linux-devel mailing list > Gc-...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gc-linux-devel > |