I'm a big fan of the UDPCast application. I used it on Monday to clone a computer lab on my campus. The lab has 25 pc's and it only took around 2 hours to clone the whole lab.
I am having a problem though. We recently purchased new PC's with Gigabit network cards (Intel E1000). I can't get UPDCast to work with our new NIC's. I've tried to build UDPCast with the e1000.o module, but I wasn't successful. I really don't know enough about Linux to know where I went wrong, but I think it's something to do with the driver being written for a different kernel then the UDPCast kernel.
I just hoping someone else has built a Boot Disk with the e1000.o module and could send me instructions or the disk.
Thank you for taking the time to read this post. Any help is appericated.
Ian
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There is a new alpha release at http://udpcast.linux.lu/20030517 , which should solve the issue with the e1000 driver.
Could you try it out?
Specifically, the boot floppy can be downloaded from http://www.udpcast.linux.lu/20030517/udpflop.img
and can be written to floppy using the following command:
cat http://www.udpcast.linux.lu/20030517/udpflop.img >/dev/fd0
Thanks,
Alain
On Tuesday 20 May 2003 20:42, Ian Oliver wrote:
I'm a big fan of the UDPCast application. I used it on Monday to clone a computer lab on my campus. The lab has 25 pc's and it only took around 2 hours to clone the whole lab.
I am having a problem though. We recently purchased new PC's with Gigabit network cards (Intel E1000). I can't get UPDCast to work with our new NIC's. I've tried to build UDPCast with the e1000.o module, but I wasn't successful. I really don't know enough about Linux to know where I went wrong, but I think it's something to do with the driver being written for a different kernel then the UDPCast kernel.
I just hoping someone else has built a Boot Disk with the e1000.o module and could send me instructions or the disk.
Thank you for taking the time to read this post. Any help is appericated.
Ian
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I've downloaded the new alpha release, and I'm trying to add the e1000.o module using the instructions on the web page.
I get to Step 5. And when I run the mount command I recieve this error message:
[root@ioliver udpcast]# mount -o loop -t minix initdisk /mnt mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, or too many mounted file systems
and I'm not sure what to do to fix this.
Thanks again for your time,
Ian
--- Alain Knaff alain.knaff@lll.lu wrote:
There is a new alpha release at http://udpcast.linux.lu/20030517 , which should solve the issue with the e1000 driver.
Could you try it out?
Specifically, the boot floppy can be downloaded from http://www.udpcast.linux.lu/20030517/udpflop.img
and can be written to floppy using the following command:
cat http://www.udpcast.linux.lu/20030517/udpflop.img
/dev/fd0
Thanks,
Alain
On Tuesday 20 May 2003 20:42, Ian Oliver wrote:
I'm a big fan of the UDPCast application. I used
it
on Monday to clone a computer lab on my campus.
The
lab has 25 pc's and it only took around 2 hours to clone the whole lab.
I am having a problem though. We recently
purchased
new PC's with Gigabit network cards (Intel E1000).
I
can't get UPDCast to work with our new NIC's.
I've
tried to build UDPCast with the e1000.o module,
but I
wasn't successful. I really don't know enough
about
Linux to know where I went wrong, but I think it's something to do with the driver being written for
a
different kernel then the UDPCast kernel.
I just hoping someone else has built a Boot Disk
with
the e1000.o module and could send me instructions
or
the disk.
Thank you for taking the time to read this post.
Any
help is appericated.
Ian
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On Wednesday 21 May 2003 15:48, Ian Oliver wrote:
I've downloaded the new alpha release, and I'm trying to add the e1000.o module using the instructions on the web page. I get to Step 5. And when I run the mount command I recieve this error message:
[root@ioliver udpcast]# mount -o loop -t minix initdisk /mnt mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, or too many mounted file systems
You need to be aware that the new boot loader release is based on a different program (busybox, rather than the SuSE install disk as was the case before) and it also uses a different filesystem (romfs, rather than minixfs). Thus, the instructions for the old version no longer apply. But they should not be needed either, because e1000 is already included in the default image.
If you need support for other cards, which might not be included in the new image, then use the instructions at http://www.udpcast.linux.lu/20030517/makeImage.html
For instance, to make a floppy with the pcnet32 and the acenic module, use the following command line:
/usr/lib/udpcast/makeImage -k /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-rc2-udpcast -m "pcnet32 acenic" -f /dev/fd0
However, by default, the following modules are already included anyways:
3c59x 8139too 8390 dl2k dmfe e100 e1000 eepro100 epic100 fealnx hamachi hp100 natsemi ne2k-pci ns83820 pcnet32 r8169 sis900 starfire tc35815 tg3 tlan tulip typhoon via-rhine winbond-840
Regards,
Alain
Alain,
Thank you for your reply. I did notice that the drivers were on the disk, but they are in a folder within the net directory, and all the other drivers are not in folders. I don't know if that makes a difference, but I am not able to select the e1000 from the list of drivers when I boot my computer.
Thank you again for your help, please let me know if there is anything I can do.
Ian Oliver
--- Alain Knaff alain@knaff.lu wrote:
On Wednesday 21 May 2003 15:48, Ian Oliver wrote:
I've downloaded the new alpha release, and I'm
trying
to add the e1000.o module using the instructions
on
the web page. I get to Step 5. And when I run the mount command
I
recieve this error message:
[root@ioliver udpcast]# mount -o loop -t minix initdisk /mnt mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock
on
/dev/loop0, or too many mounted file systems
You need to be aware that the new boot loader release is based on a different program (busybox, rather than the SuSE install disk as was the case before) and it also uses a different filesystem (romfs, rather than minixfs). Thus, the instructions for the old version no longer apply. But they should not be needed either, because e1000 is already included in the default image.
If you need support for other cards, which might not be included in the new image, then use the instructions at http://www.udpcast.linux.lu/20030517/makeImage.html
For instance, to make a floppy with the pcnet32 and the acenic module, use the following command line:
/usr/lib/udpcast/makeImage -k /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-rc2-udpcast -m "pcnet32 acenic" -f /dev/fd0
However, by default, the following modules are already included anyways:
3c59x 8139too 8390 dl2k dmfe e100 e1000 eepro100 epic100 fealnx hamachi hp100 natsemi ne2k-pci ns83820 pcnet32 r8169 sis900 starfire tc35815 tg3 tlan tulip typhoon via-rhine winbond-840
Regards,
Alain
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On Wednesday 21 May 2003 20:18, Ian Oliver wrote:
Alain,
Thank you for your reply. I did notice that the drivers were on the disk, but they are in a folder within the net directory, and all the other drivers are not in folders. I don't know if that makes a difference, but I am not able to select the e1000 from the list of drivers when I boot my computer.
Thank you again for your help, please let me know if there is anything I can do.
Ian Oliver
There were a couple of bugs in the 20030517 version.
Todays version (20030524) should now ok. The problem was that the network modules that were in non-standard places (i.e. subdirectories of drivers/net) were not included in the index list. This should now work.
Regards,
Alain
Alain,
Thank you for fixing the UDPCast Boot Disk with the e1000 module. It looks like it will work just fine now.
Ian Oliver
--- Alain Knaff alain.knaff@lll.lu wrote:
On Wednesday 21 May 2003 20:18, Ian Oliver wrote:
Alain,
Thank you for your reply. I did notice that the drivers were on the disk, but they are in a folder within the net directory, and all the other
drivers
are not in folders. I don't know if that makes a difference, but I am not able to select the e1000
from
the list of drivers when I boot my computer.
Thank you again for your help, please let me know
if
there is anything I can do.
Ian Oliver
There were a couple of bugs in the 20030517 version.
Todays version (20030524) should now ok. The problem was that the network modules that were in non-standard places (i.e. subdirectories of drivers/net) were not included in the index list. This should now work.
Regards,
Alain
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