Suse 10.2 onto Soekris 4801 using vmware and a cf

Lantzvillian · 06-04-2008, 04:59 PM

Hello everyone,

I am working on putting Suse 10.2 onto a Soekris 4801 using a cf card an doing a direct install to it using VMware. Now obviously there will be boot loader changes in GRUB. But has anyone here done this?

We are going to be using the soekris as a streaming webcam box that can be easily moved around the network as a prototype.

Any thoughts, notes, or if you had a cf image already working?

Thanks,

Ronnie

datopdog · 06-07-2008, 05:11 AM

Yes it can be done, when i did i followed this tutorial http://i1.dk/misc/soekris_net4801_suse_linux_9_3.html am sure you can adapt it for 10.2

Lantzvillian · 06-08-2008, 04:09 PM

Thanks, I tried, but I wanted to install directly to the card to save myself a wack of work. I couldn't get it to boot afterwords, my thoughts were that the grub loader was messing up at some point.

Zainuddin Jusoh · 02-11-2011, 10:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lantzvillian

Hello everyone,

I am working on putting Suse 10.2 onto a Soekris 4801 using a cf card an doing a direct install to it using VMware. Now obviously there will be boot loader changes in GRUB. But has anyone here done this?

We are going to be using the soekris as a streaming webcam box that can be easily moved around the network as a prototype.

Any thoughts, notes, or if you had a cf image already working?

Thanks,

Ronnie

still trying..
i successfull install suse 10.3 on net5501.
i can share my experience.