Re: [Trinux-talk] trinux newbie

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

Yes, you can boot from a flash IDE or normal IDE drive. Here is a rough
guide:

1) Create a small DOS/FAT partition (10-25mb). This will need to be *DOS*
not NT, so you will need to dig up a Win9x or DoS boot floppy and format
/s it. If you want to stay Open Source FreeDoS (http://www.freedos.org)
will work fine.

2) Somehow copy loadlin.exe to that partition in C:\

3) Create a trinux directory on c:\

4) Download the latest initrd.gz from
http://www.io.com/~mdfranz/trinux/initd/ and place it c:\

5) Download an ide kernel from http://trinux.sf.net/kernel/x.x.x/ide/ (I
think 2.4.5 should work) to c:\bzimage

6) Test it to make surt it boots: c:> loadlin initrd=3Dinitrd.gz
root=3D/dev/ram0 bzimage (the kernel name might come before the boot
arguments, can't remember off the top of my head. Whatever command you get
working can be added to your autoxec.bat to get everything going

7) Within c:\trinux create the following directories:

tux - contains the normal directory structure found on trinux floppies

bootpkg - will contain any packages you want loaded early on if you want
to do network booting you will need: dnslibs.tgz dhcpcd.tgz system.tgz.

kpkg - kernel packages you want loaded

pkg - you can also put packages here


NOTE: network configuration changes slightly from the last floppy release.

If you want to do DHCP (easiest) tux\config\eth0 (or eth1) should contain
dhcp. You can also put the IP and netmask in there separated by a space
(192.168.100.1 255.255.255.0) and then add \tux\config\gateway,dns with
your default route and DNS server

Post to the list if you have any problems.

- mdf

> I=B4ve just found trinux and looking around (docs, faq and lists) I didn=
=B4t
> find a *exact* answer for my question... so there it goes:
> - Can I install trinux to boot from a IDE disk and not necessarily from a
> floppy disk (perhaps a flash-ide) ?
> I=B4ve found documantation enough to install it in a floppy disk but I
> couldn=B4t found any where explaning how to install only in IDE drivers.
> If someone could send me a url, doc, pice of txt, anything.... I=B4ll be
> thankful.
>
> Thank=B4s in advance,
> Gus
>
>
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