trinux-talk

Re: [Trinux-talk] Labrea, savecfg, docs

[<lu...@om...>]

"France DeParis" <fra...@pa...> wrote:

> 1) Is there any more documentation on Trinux than what is available in the
> "Configure It" and "Use it" sections of the Trinux page? (note that the "The > Basics" page appears to be truncated
> 2) the savehome and savecfg commands return a "command not found"
> message. I would like to save my config and drivers so that I don't have to
> dl them from the net all the time.
> 3) is it possible to use one of my hard disk partitions? I would prefer to
> use my drive D: (both my C: and D: are FAT)
> 4) re LabreA: I have followed the instructions on how to run it - and it
> appears to be running - but how do I see what it is doing?  (I suspect it has > something with accessing "syslog", but I 
don't know how to do that, newbie
> that I am).  It would be great if there were some sort of switch or console
> which showed results in 'realtime' (and I don't mean tcpdump!)

Don't know about the first 2 questions, but yes you may use a HDD. You need to find out which device your HDD is. On 
my system, it was /dev/hda1. I believe this would be indicated in the boot messages, type "dmesg" to see that. Then use 
the "mount" command like this: "mount /dev/hda1 /c -t vfat" where "/c" is the mount point. It must be a valid directory.

Check /var/log/messages to get info about LaBrea.

Lucas
Omsoft Technologies

Re: [Trinux-talk] Labrea, savecfg, docs

[France D. <fra...@pa...>]

Hi, Matthew and Lucas - thanx 4 yr replies!

I will print out and tinker with your suggestions, but I wonder if my problem isn't deeper...I read the section "Fixed Disk Package Loading" section in your doc...

I have downloaded "trinux-0.80rc2-ide.img" and made a disk from it, but when I boot from it it ends with a screenful (and I think it's scrolling) of lines which say: 
tar: bad tar header, skipping
from that point, there is nothing I can do but cold-boot the cpu.

Before that, from among the stuff that scrolls by rather quickly, I can see stuff like 'found hda1'...no packages found, etc... 

I have created a directory at the root of my D: drive named trinux, and after floppy-booting with it empty, I tried copying the contents of the NET floppy's tux directory (my NET floppy works well), but to no avail!

I strongly suspect (and many readers probably know already) that mine is a "newbie" problem, so I appreciate your help and patience! I've been working with computers since the first PC and know DOS inside out, but now I feel like I'm starting all over!! (kewl!)  ;->


-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Franz <mf...@ci...>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:03:15 +0000 (/etc/localtime)
To:  <lu...@om...>
Subject: Re: [Trinux-talk] Labrea, savecfg, docs


> > > which showed results in 'realtime' (and I don't mean tcpdump!)
> >
> > Don't know about the first 2 questions, but yes you may use a HDD. You need to find out which device your HDD is. On
> > my system, it was /dev/hda1. I believe this would be indicated in the boot messages, type "dmesg" to see that. Then use
> > the "mount" command like this: "mount /dev/hda1 /c -t vfat" where "/c" is the mount point. It must be a valid directory.
> >
> > Check /var/log/messages to get info about LaBrea.
> >
> 
> In order to do this you will need to have IDE support in your kernel
> via either the trinux-ide boot floppy or add ide.tgz to the kpkglist file
> in /tux/config/ on the boot floppy or
> 
> # getpkg 2.4.5/ide
> 
> # dmesg | grep hd
> 
> will show all the partitions
> 
> Make sure you umount /dev/hdwhatever before you reboot because I think the
> busybox reboot command might be broken and not do the umount -a (all) that
> it is supposed to do.
> 
> 
>  - mdf
> 
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Re: [Trinux-talk] Labrea, savecfg, docs

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

> > which showed results in 'realtime' (and I don't mean tcpdump!)
>
> Don't know about the first 2 questions, but yes you may use a HDD. You need to find out which device your HDD is. On
> my system, it was /dev/hda1. I believe this would be indicated in the boot messages, type "dmesg" to see that. Then use
> the "mount" command like this: "mount /dev/hda1 /c -t vfat" where "/c" is the mount point. It must be a valid directory.
>
> Check /var/log/messages to get info about LaBrea.
>

In order to do this you will need to have IDE support in your kernel
via either the trinux-ide boot floppy or add ide.tgz to the kpkglist file
in /tux/config/ on the boot floppy or

# getpkg 2.4.5/ide

# dmesg | grep hd

will show all the partitions

Make sure you umount /dev/hdwhatever before you reboot because I think the
busybox reboot command might be broken and not do the umount -a (all) that
it is supposed to do.


 - mdf

Re: [Trinux-talk] Labrea, savecfg, docs

[<HHu...@t-...>]

Hallo, Matthew,

Du meintest am 28.09.01 zum Thema Re: [Trinux-talk] Labrea, savecfg, docs:

> # dmesg | grep hd

> will show all the partitions

> Make sure you umount /dev/hdwhatever before you reboot because I
> think the busybox reboot command might be broken and not do the
> umount -a (all) that it is supposed to do.

        halt
at the end of the session does fit. It calls "sync" (very good!) and  
then unmounts if possible all partitions.

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut