[CUWiN-Dev] Re: CUWIN on Meraki Mini

[Charles Paul]

Hello,

Will this installation routine work for any Meraki Mini?

Yours Truly,
Charles

On Feb 9, 2008 7:28 PM, David Young <dyoung at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 03:05:18PM -0800, Bao Q. Nguyen wrote:
> > Thank you very much for looking at it. If you don't have time to complete it
> > by tomorrow or other times I would appreciate it if you explain a bit about
> > what has to be be done so I can hopefully get on track and assist.
> >
> > >From what I learned, I'm less confused now about what has to be done but the
> > part where I can't compile for the "meraki" architecture with CUWIN code
> > kind of stumped me while the netbsd code I was able to use the "-m
> > evbmips-eb" as documented. So when one said "compile CUWIN for Meraki" is
> > that mean compiling the root partition and binaries for Meraki platform
> > correct? Or just the compiling of the binaries while the root partition has
> > to be package separately?
> >
> > Thanks for the confirmation with the NFS, I just though that I was missing
> > something but now I know we are on the same page. So with the NFS, the MFS
> > is used to create a root file system at boot-time then download files from
> > NFS or the entire root is on NFS? If not, what's the possibility of using
> > MFS on the Meraki?
> >
> > Otherwise hope to hear back from you tomorrow!
>
> Sorry, took a longer than I'd expected to test.  Here are a kernel and
> an NFS root, respectively, for the Meraki Mini,
>
> ftp://cuw.ojctech.com/cuw/cuwin-923f44b1/kernel-meraki-09-Feb-2008
> ftp://cuw.ojctech.com/cuw/cuwin-923f44b1/nfsroot-meraki-09-Feb-2008.tgz
>
> I serve the kernel with TFTP.
> That is setup to expect the NFS root at
> 192.168.1.101:/home/dyoung/meraki-root/.
>
> I use this setup with the ISC DHCP server,
>
>         ddns-update-style none;
>
>         authoritative;
>
>         subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>                 option routers 192.168.1.101;
>                 option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>                 range 192.168.1.20 192.168.1.50;
>         }
>
>         host meraki {
>                 hardware ethernet 00:18:0a:01:01:8c;
>                 fixed-address 192.168.1.5;
>                 next-server 192.168.1.101;
>                 filename "meraki";
>                 option host-name "meraki";
>                 option root-path "/home/dyoung/meraki-root";
>         }
>
> This is just an example; the MAC number of your Mini will probably be
> different than mine.
>
> I will send a link to the NetBSD sources that I used under separate cover.
> Others should send me an email if they would like for me to send them the
> link, too.  I am trying to avoid an arbitrary number of people hammering
> our Internet connection with downloads.
>
> Use the latest CUWiN sources in our Subversion repository.  The script
> cuw/trunk/src/boot-image/buildnfsmeraki will build a kernel and NFS root
> for the Mini.
>
>
> Dave
>
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