Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:58:25 +0200 From: Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org> To: Martin Nilsson <martin@mullet.se> Cc: David DELAVENNAT <David.Delavennat@univ-mlv.fr> Subject: Re: [Thinbsd] Re: ThinBSD with other videodriver Message-ID: <20040616075825.GB23345@aoi.wolfpond.org> In-Reply-To: <40CF0BF8.3040206@mullet.se> References: <40CEBC17.9050602@mullet.se> <20040615115341.GA20812@aoi.wolfpond.org> <40CEFDBC.8000108@univ-mlv.fr> <40CF0BF8.3040206@mullet.se>
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:47:20PM +0200, Martin Nilsson wrote: > David DELAVENNAT wrote: > >|> I installed thinbsd on to a flash card yesterday only to find > >|> that I had a trident Cyberblade video in my tiny diskless client. > >|> > >what flash card did you use? > >on the todo list we have the flashboot faq :) > > The machine I used have a motherboard similar to this one: > http://web.lex.com.tw:7777/cv860a.htm > The flash I used was just an 256MB CF card that were available. > > How to install ThinBSD on flash. > 1. Boot the FreeBSD cdrom on the machine with installed CF card. > 2. In sysinstall goto Configure->label & fdisk. Crete one partition on > the flash, set it bootable, newfs and write the changes (you have to > also make a small swap partition, make it 1MB we won't use it) > > 3. exit & reboot. > > 4. put the flash in a box with a real running FreeBSD. > If you using a CF card an USB card reader is useful. > mount it under /mnt and cd there. > untar boot-xxx.tar.gz move the kernel from /mnt/boot/kernel/kernel to > /mnt and also put mfsroot.gz in /mnt (not in boot as for PXE install) > > 5. unmount and put flash in your thin computer and see it fly. This seems surprisingly easy. When we started the project, we thought about flash-based devices, but had not yet time to test them. It is good news to hear that they work almost out-of the box ! > The sysinstall part could probably be made a lot easier by calling fdisk > & disklabel directly from a script but the above was the way I knew > would work. > > >as it is done with pexes project maybe we could write a config script > >that put in the ramdisk only the drivers needed > >for a specific configuration. better than see the ramdisk grow to > >support every thinclient hardware in the world. > >something like the openbsd installer that config the keyboard, > >drivers, etc... > > Having a smorgasbord of compiled binaries for different programs, > drivers etc to choose from when creating the mfsroot would probably be > smart. A small script could then ask which ones to include on the ramdisk. Yes, this would be good. For the moment a good part of the work has to be done by hand. In the interim, I just put a new ramdisk image on the web site with support for the 'trident' driver. You will still have to edit xorg.conf to reflect your configuration, though. -- Francois Tigeot
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