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On Nov 17, 2005, at 1:58 PM, John Huttley wrote: |
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> Qiangning Hong wrote: |
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>> I'd like to turn an old 486 (32MB ram) to a file server accessable |
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>> via |
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>> samba&nfs&ftp. And I can telnet to it to change user passwords. |
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>> And it |
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>> should contain some small daemons written by myself (e.g. disk health |
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>> monitor). |
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>> I know I can start from stage1-x86-uclibc, but I found another |
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>> interesting project, GNAP. I have very little knowledge about |
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>> GNAP, but |
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>> I believe if it suits my requirement, it will reduce my affort a lot. |
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>> So, can GNAP help me make such a embedded system? |
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> Yes, I use GNAP with success on soekris boxes. |
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> The 4501 is equivalaent to a 486-133 with 64Mb ram. |
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> It takes about 5 mins to boot though. |
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> It uses standard baselayout scripts, and they are very slow to |
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> execute. |
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I've rolled my own Gentoo embedded for the Soekris 45xx boards, using |
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the embedded baselayout and some scripts to ease the pain of creating |
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a full installation. It only takes 30 seconds or so to boot. |
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-Josh |
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Joshua ChaitinPollak |
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Software Engineer |
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Kiva Systems |
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