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List:       ipcop-user
Subject:    Re: [IPCop-user] Loading IPCop on Compact Flash
From:       Olaf <mailinglists () ban-solms ! de>
Date:       2008-05-18 13:41:48
Message-ID: 4830321C.4070806 () ban-solms ! de
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Darren Conway wrote:
> The IPCop instructions say to produce a CF image on a similar machine to 
> the target PC.
> Is there any reason why the machine that builds the image can't also be 
> the target PC?? I can't find anything in the archive that addresses this 
> particular point.
>   
The same machine is certainly 'similar'  :-)

> My plan is to:
>  -  take an existing machine fitted with a hard drive and also the 
> CF/IDE in slave mode. 
>  -  Next run the flash script to produce the CF image.
>  -  Then dd the image onto the CF. 
>  -  shut down the PC, remove the hard drive and configure the CF into 
> master mode.
>  -  re-boot the PC and I hope to be running IPCop off the CF
>
> Does that look reasonable??
>   
Yes.  Make sure you create the CF image with the correct hda (primary 
IDE) or hdc (secondary IDE).
If the machine boots from IDE slave as well, you could even skip the 
change to master mode.


Olaf


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