SBE HighWire HW400c/2 - Manual (Page 80)

HighWire HW400c/2 User Reference Guide Rev 1.0
• Recent distribution of Linux installed. Because Gentoo Linux is based on the
2.6 series Linux kernel, it is best to use Gentoo Linux in conjunction with a
host that has a Linux distribution based on the 2.6 kernel.
5.2 Network and System Configuration
Booting Linux on the HW400c/2 requires services that are traditionally installed as
evelopment Linux installation. If you are putting together a
development system that you will use to host one or more HW400c/2s and your
on class.
your desktop Linux system includes a firewall, you might find that it is pre-
configured to suppress many of the types of communications (FTP, TFTP, DHCP,
NFS, etc.) that the HW400/c2 requires in order to boot. If you cannot successfully
5.3 Installing Lin
copy Gentoo Linux for the SBE HW400c/2 from SBE’s ftp archive.
g
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# c
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x tion
under /
kernel i
part of a server or d
desktop Linux distribution supports a server-class installation, we suggest that you
use this installati
If
boot your board using the instructions provided in this section because the board
cannot communicate with the system on which you installed the Gentoo Linux
distribution, make sure that you have either disabled any default firewall installation,
or that you have at least enabled the specific services necessary to boot Linux as
described in this chapter.
ux on your host system
For simplicity, the following instructions assume that you are installing from a
downloaded
Copy the archive file to /opt and uncompress it. You should use the followin
ommands to uncompress the archive and extract its contents: c
tar -zxvf <downloaded #
d <extracted_directory>
e e tracted, you will find a complete Gentoo PPC Linux source code distribu
opt/gentoo. This file system will be used to create the downloadable
mage for the HW400c/2.
The version of Gentoo from
www.gentoo.org
does not have the extra files needed f
operation on the HW400c/2. The Gentoo Linux distribution for the HW400c/2 be
obtained from SBE.
You m
or
ust have root privileges to install the Gentoo Linux distribution. All of the
xamples in this section show the standard prompt for the root user, #. You should
ot type the # character when entering the commands described in this section.
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Before installing the Linux kernel you should read any available Release Notes.
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