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Title: dual booting with a CF( cacko +pdaX)
Post by: x273 on July 23, 2004, 06:04:27 pm

could someone tell me how create dual boot?

there is an how-to somewhere? or could someone make me a simple explanation of the proces

Title: dual booting with a CF( cacko +pdaX)
Post by: padishah_emperor on July 23, 2004, 10:37:04 pm

A search will turn up this thread:
https://www.oesf.org/forums/inde...90&hl=dual+boot (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=3027&st=90&hl=dual+boot)

You have to use a SD/MMC card, you cannot do it with a CF card AFAIK.

Title: dual booting with a CF( cacko +pdaX)
Post by: x273 on July 24, 2004, 09:47:55 am

tnx !!!!!!!!

Title: dual booting with a CF( cacko +pdaX)
Post by: padishah_emperor on July 24, 2004, 10:10:26 am

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tnx !!!!!!!!

You're welcome, I asked the same question..  

Title: dual booting with a CF( cacko +pdaX)
Post by: x273 on July 27, 2004, 11:15:24 am

i have read that the sd must be ext2 formatted how i  could format on zaurrus?
and how i remount the / ? (please i am a newby linux user)

Title: dual booting with a CF( cacko +pdaX)
Post by: jerrybme on July 27, 2004, 02:45:07 pm

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i have read that the sd must be ext2 formatted how i  could format on zaurrus?
and how i remount the / ? (please i am a newby linux user)

If you're not running as root,

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$ su

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# umount /dev/mmcda1
# mkfs.ext2 /dev/mmcda1
Then pull out SD card and reinsert it to remount (easier than typing mount command for newbies)

Cheers,
Jerry

Title: dual booting with a CF( cacko +pdaX)
Post by: x273 on July 27, 2004, 03:29:24 pm

last question (realy excuse me)  

the readme say :

5. cp init script to /sbin

but i can't copy init on /sbin/init

and i hav'nt understand what i have to do whit init.card script...

realy tnx anyway...

Title: dual booting with a CF( cacko +pdaX)
Post by: jerrybme on July 27, 2004, 05:56:35 pm

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last question (realy excuse me)  

the readme say :

5. cp init script to /sbin

but i can't copy init on /sbin/init

and i hav'nt understand what i have to do whit init.card script...

realy tnx anyway...

First, make sure you've done step 2

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#mount -o rw,remount /Then you may have to delete /sbin/init before you copy the new one. This is because the original /sbin/init is really just a sym link to /sbin/teleinit.

I find installing MC (Midnight Commander) makes working with the files easier. Once you install MC you open it in a terminal by typing

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mc -a To access the F1-F10 keys press ESC + the number key, ie. F4 = ESC+4. The beauty of MC is the built -in editor/viewer.

For init.card, copy it to the root of your SD card. The new init that Stubear created will look for init.card on the SD during boot up, if it finds it then it boots into the ROM on your SD, if it's not there it runs teleinit in the /sbin/sys directory and the default ROM loads.

Try opening init & init.card in a viewer to see how the scripts are constructed (if you have MC installed it's very easy to view scripts, and you will learn lots)

Cheers,

Jerry

Title: dual booting with a CF( cacko +pdaX)
Post by: x273 on July 28, 2004, 04:02:15 am

tnx now work!!