Re: [Thinstation-general] New HOWTO: Thinstation booting from a HDwith Syslinux

[Patrick S. <Pat...@ma...>]

Looks good.  Thanks.

Patrick Steele
Information Systems Specialist
CompTIA A+ Certified Professional
Mayville State University
330 3rd St NE
Mayville ND, 58257
701-788-4794

>>> Mike Eriksen <km...@ma...> 2/27/2004 1:38:59 PM >>>
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Patrick Steele wrote:

> Two items have been pointed out, that need to be restated in this
> HOWTO.
> 
> 1) Item #16 says 'Rename kernel/vmlinuz-2.4.24 to vmlinuz (mv
> ./kernel/vmlinuz-2.4.24 ./vmlinuz)' - it should say 'Rename
> kernel/vmlinuz-2.4.24 to vmlinuz (cp ./kernel/vmlinuz-2.4.24
./vmlinuz)'
> since you should be copying the kernel, rather than moving it. 
Moving
> it could break other builds.

Fixed.

  
> 2)  Item #17 suggests you might have to change 'root=/dev/rd/0' to
> 'root=/dev/ram0' - upon further investigation, this really doesn't
make
> any difference.  The problem is with the '=' after the append in
> syslinux.cfg.  The syslinux.cfg should be modified to say 'append
> loadramdisk=1' rather than 'append=loadramdisk=1'.

I erased this item. It is a bug that will be iron out in beta-6 
due in a week. Anybody working with beta-5 will check this list and see

this anyway.
 
> One more note:  You may choose to modify thinstation.conf.buildtime
> rather than ./packages/base/etc/thinstation.defaults.  If you were
to
> modify thinstation.conf.buildtime, then use 'cat
> thinstation.conf.example >> thinstation.conf.buildtime' rather than
'cat
> thinstation.conf.example >
./packages/base/etc/thinstation.defaults',
> and comment out everything in
./packages/base/etc/thinstation.defaults

I did a bit of editing. See if you like it.

Mike