From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39340AC7.689BFF86@snmc.com> Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 13:39:03 -0500 From: Daris Nevil MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Roberts CC: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Do you have your minimum ramdisk image which can provide basic network services ? References: <020e01bfc93f$5dc075c0$db52df8d@helsinki> <3934086C.87BF893@lucent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Tom, The quick-and-dirty way of enabling your loopback device is: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 Daris SiSIC Inc/SNMC www.snmc.com Tom Roberts wrote: > SangTae Ha wrote: > > I already downloaded full image file at > ftp://ftp.ppc.kernel.org/pub/linuxppc/embedded/mbxroot.full.tgz > > I just downloaded that file, too. As you say, it is HUGE (133 MB > gzipped). > > Unfortunately, it is also incomplete. In particular, it is missing: > init (/etc/telinit is a link to init, but no init) > inetd > > I had been hoping to simply build up an initrd image from selected > pieces of it, because I now have the Linux kernel, console, and > initrd-ramdisk up and running on my hardware (Hurrah!). But I'm > having difficulty building a sufficient initrd image to actually use > the network driver I have written (:-(). So far, I cannot even ping > myself using the loopback device (no inetd, I suppose). > > Tom Roberts tjroberts@lucent.com > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/