| 1 | http://soekris.com/Manuals/net4801_manual.pdf |
| 2 | |
| 3 | * set up infrastructure |
| 4 | |
| 5 | The netboot image for debian is already around. You need |
| 6 | |
| 7 | wget http://centerclick.org/net4801/pxelinux/pxelinux.0.gz |
| 8 | |
| 9 | as opposed to the pxelinux.bin that's already around. You need to |
| 10 | make a link in pxelinux.cfg to an appropriate pxelinux configuration |
| 11 | file, namely the one for serial. To the end of the 'insall' image you |
| 12 | want to add: |
| 13 | |
| 14 | DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text |
| 15 | |
| 16 | (we did this, so it's probably already there.) |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Minicom should be set for 9600 baud, 8 databits, no parity, 1 stop |
| 19 | bit, no flow control. Turn hardware flow control off in minicom. The |
| 20 | UNIX device for talking to the console is almost certainly /dev/ttyS0. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | * configure the Soekris net4801 BIOS |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Look at the banner from when the net4801 boots. Get the BIOS version |
| 25 | and check it against the Soekris web site. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | Set the date and time. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | set ConSpeed=9600 |