Linux on the bushstb

[Jon]

What is the obsession with getting linux on the bush box anyway? I can't
tell if its worse than people who buy indy's and put Linux on them.

Jon
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Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 09:13:11PM +0000, Vincent Sanders wrote:
> 
> > > 1) What format needs to be on the zip disk? (I can mount, read and
> > > write ADFS from my Linux system, but I can't actually build an ADFS
> > > FS - no one seems to have written a "mkadfs" utility analogous to
> > > mkisofs etc.
> >
> > Hmm theres an idea...The zip disc in question is in some bizare format
> > however chris sawyer at http://www.sawer.uklinux.net/bush/ has some
> > stuff which may well be useful, that image of a disc is probably what
> > you need use dd if=/path/to/image of=/dev/<your ppa drive>
> >
> > If you can then mount the disc you are away...please tell me if this
> > works :-)
> 
> I've written a disk with "bzcat zipImage.bz2 > /dev/hdd" (my Zip drive
> is hdd) and the Bush can see it properly. However the Linux ADFS driver
> appears to have limited write support (only permissions and the like, no
> creation of new blocks) and I can't acutally unzip the Linux stuff onto
> the disk. :(
> 
> J.
> 
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