Troubles getting started...

[Hal Murray]

I have a shiny new B2 system, but I'm not getting very far.

The recipe at
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Autoreinstallation_image
seems simple enough, but nothing happens when I try it.  During booting, if 
finds the disk and puts a Flash icon up top, but then it just boots the old 
software.

I assume I don't have the filesystem and/or partition types setup correctly.  
I've tried a couple of combinations, but no luck yet.  A Linux ext2 on the 
raw disk (no partitions) gets some error messages I don't normally see.
  Can't open disk label package.

Can somebody tell me some combination that is known to work with Open 
Firmware?  What partition type number and what mkfs or mkdosfs commands?  
I've got a 1GB flash drive if the size makes any difference.



Are wired Ethernet USB gadgets expected to work?  I don't have any wireless 
gear to talk to.  I now have a Linksys USB200M.  That seemed simpler than 
setting up a wireless base station.

I was expecting things to just work via DHCP.  It didn't, so I'm trying to 
set things up by hand.  I'm not getting very far.

The new device shows up as eth0, bumping the internal wireless to eth1.  I 
turned off NetworkManager since it was confusing me, for example by turning 
eth0 off.

I've never seen any packets come in.  The LED on the USB200M blinks when I 
expect arp packets on my lan.  The RX counter from ifconfig -a still says 0.

I've never seen any packets go out.  The TX counter goes up, but the LEDs 
don't blink.  I see some errors too.  /var/log/messages says "eth0: transmit 
timed out"

That's running build 239.

ping from Open Firmware works.


Is there a wiki section that covers getting started and low level hints?  If 
so, how should I have found it?



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