MinimaLinux

ttylinux 10.0 is released

2012-03-06T04:22:56Z

There are new ttylinux releases version 10.0 at http://ttylinux.net/; see the news page http://www.ttylinux.net/news.html. All ttylinux variants now use the same revision; some ttylinux variants have moved up in revision number to become 10.0, some ttylinux variants have moved down in revision number to become 10.0, and some ttylinux variants have gone away.

ttylinux 9.11, 12.7 is released

2012-01-23T05:32:45Z

There are new ttylinux releases at http://ttylinux.net/; see the news page http://www.ttylinux.net/news.html. These will be available at the minimalinux.org site within some days or weeks. The changelogs are something like:

Version 12.7,
- distribution named "buzzkill"
- updated from alsa-lib-1.0.23 to alsa-lib-1.0.24
- updated from binutils-2.20 to binutils-2.22
- updated from busybox-1.18.4 to busybox-1.19.3
- updated from dropbear-0.52 to dropbear-0.53.1
- updated from e2fsprogs-1.41.12 to e2fsprogs-1.42
- updated from glibc-2.12.1 to glibc-2.13
- updated from iptables-1.4.9.1 to iptables-1.4.12
- updated from lilo-23.1 to lilo-23.2
- updated from module-init-tools-3.12 to module-init-tools-3.16

http://ttylinux.net is down

2011-12-30T10:55:39Z

i was on the way to get the new "buzzkill" version, but failed:

Verbindung zu 74.117.222.40 Fehlgeschlagen.
Das System antwortete: (110) Connection timed out

Is there an estimate when the source for "buzzkill" will be available?

best regards,
Schwan

ttylinux 12.7 releases for ws-ttylinux

2011-12-25T19:29:55Z

The new ws-ttylinux releases are at http://ttylinux.net/, see the news page http://www.ttylinux.net/news.html; these will be available at the minimalinux.org site within a few days of this post. The changelogs are something like:

Version 12.7, Sun Dec 25 11:56:03 MST 2011
- distribution named "buzzkill"
- updated from alsa-lib-1.0.23 to alsa-lib-1.0.24
- updated from binutils-2.20 to binutils-2.22
- updated from busybox-1.18.4 to busybox-1.19.3
- updated from dropbear-0.52 to dropbear-0.53.1
- updated from e2fsprogs-1.41.12 to e2fsprogs-1.42
- updated from glibc-2.12.1 to glibc-2.13
- updated from iptables-1.4.9.1 to iptables-1.4.12
- updated from lilo-23.1 to lilo-23.2
- updated from module-init-tools-3.12 to module-init-tools-3.16

Can ttylinux support network bonding?

2011-12-24T13:33:39Z

ttylinux is really a great project. And I use it in my system. I want to know if it supports network bonding?

for example, I did as follows:
1, config the kernel to support bonding;
2, add these to /etc/modprobe.conf/modprobe.conf
alias bond0 bonding
options bond0 miimon=100 mode=0
3, add ifcfg-bond0
# cat ifcfg-bond0
ENABLE=yes
DEVICE=bond0
IPADDRESS=192.168.1.241
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
GATEWAY=192.168.1.254
CIDRLEN=24
DHCP=no
TYPE=Ethernet
BOOPROTO=static
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=no

4, and ifcfg-eth0
# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=yes
MASTER=bond0
BOOTPROTO=none
SLAVE=yes

5, and ifcfg-eth1
# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
DEVICE=eth1
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=yes
MASTER=bond0
BOOTPROTO=none
SLAVE=yes

then I type "service netwok restart" or "reboot", the bond0 does not seem to work.

Any one can help me? Thanks a lot.

Esc key not working in vi [SOLVED]

2011-12-13T13:05:13Z

Solved - it had nothing to do with the Esc key. It was the colon key that had been mapped to Shift + "ö" on my keyboard. I'll let the text stand since it has already been posted.

Hi all,

When I type the Escape key and the colon in vi, I cannot reach the command line, so nothing can be edited.

I have installed ttylinux in virtualbox and mounted the resulting vdi image on my Linux (wrote a guide on how do that here, if anyone is interested).

I followed the ttylinux documentation and generated a keyboard map by running bin/dumpkmap and redirecting its output to etc/i18n/kmap, while the file system being mounted on my Ubuntu host. The same problem persisted before and after that.

However, the keyboard is still US mapped (I am using a Swedish layout).

I am not a regular vi user, but surely after having typed "i" to insert some text, hitting "Esc" then ":" should get me to the vi command mode for saving and quitting? It does on my Ubuntu host. Currently I have to reboot the virtual machine since I get stuck in vi and I can't edit or change anything.

I managed to get Internet connection on it by editing the relevant files while having the file system mounted on the host. So any help on the key mapping problem, or just let me know how to get nano on board, would be appreciated.

Hitting Esc seems to indent the text in vi once, then nothing happens.

Edit: Hitting Esc + "." in the shell brings upp the last command's last argument so Esc seems to work fine in the shell.

I know... stupid question but I'm new to this.

2011-11-28T10:35:07Z

How to install ttylinux on harddrive?

For lat couple days I was trying to install linux from scratch... but I think I'll start from something more "ready to go". some small command only linux and build own system (learn to do it) on top of it.

but How to install ttylinux on hard drive? is there any wiki or howto that explain process or its only for "Those-who-knows" and noobie should'nt have anything to do with it...

Boot Question

2011-10-19T15:23:52Z

I have two PC/104 boards, an Advantech PCM-3110 and a Technologic TS-5700. Both boards have an x586 compatable chipset. The Advantech boots ttylinux 486 with no problems but the Technologic board seems to hang after the "BIOS CHECK SUCCESSFUL". I am booting both off of a compact flash.

The TS-5700 board has no VGA/keyboard I/O whereas the PCM board does. Will ttylinux run on a SBC without video or keyboard I/O?

Thanks,

boot problem

2011-10-17T17:39:49Z

Edit: the below problem is (we think) solved. the hardware has a PCI Firewire card, and the kernel had no Firewire support. Poor kernel behavior, but using a version with Firewire support appears to have fixed the issue.

I'm having a problem where ttylinux-mp8 halts in mid-boot on a particular piece of PC104 hardware

ttylinux-mp3 boots fine on the same machine.

And the exact same ttylinux-mp8 image boots fine on another piece of embedded hardware.

The last thing seen before halt is:

>RAMDISK: gzip image found at block 0

There are no noticeable errors anywhere in the boot log.

We've played around with turning off ACPI, and other obvious BIOS things. Changed RAMDISK size to ensure the image had enough space to compress into. Tried the old probe_mask=0x3f trick.

Any ideas?

The specific hardware is "Beckhoff New Automation Technology CB4051" : http://www.beckhoff.de/english.asp?motherboards/cb4051.htm

Since ttylinux-mp3 boots, I speculate that it may have something to do with udev?

Create custom package using external library

2011-10-14T14:47:44Z

Dear ttylinux users, and dear Douglas !

I'm trying to create new packages for ttylinux. My goal is to get openswan working on ttylinux (I really need to implement L2TP/Ipsec to TTYLinux !!!).
I put the openswan sources into the pkg-src folder and tried to create a pkg-bld script to correctly build the program.
My problem starts some seconds after the build process startup... Openswan use an external lib (gmplib).
So I don't only need the compile this lib, but I need to let openswan get access to the gmplib headers.

Is there a proper way to do that ? Has somebody a package example using an external lib ?

Best regards and thank you in advance for your help !

Piziwate

Keyboard Trouble

2011-09-18T17:54:26Z

I have successfully changed my keyboard layout, using the method described on this forum (mount the ttylinux fs on another linux distribution, run dumpkmap from ttylinux, etc ...). It works is but I've ran into a couple problems.

It's important to note I'm running ws-ttylinux inside virtualbox on a Windows host. To obtain the keymap, I used a minimal debian installation, also on virtualbox.

- Pressing caps lock freezes the system. I suppose that I am simply unable to send keyboard input (so the system is not really frozen). Only workaround is a hard reboot.

- If I type "dumpkmap", it's output is redirect to standard output and the tty becomes jumbled: line-drawing symbols are shown instead of the regular characters. I don't know if that's supposed to happen, but the fix is simple : use "reset". The problem is that after using reset, my backspace key prints "^H" instead of deleting a character. Strangely, I am able to delete characters by pressing shift + backspace.

Finally, an unrelated issue that's been annoying me is that for some command line tools, doing " --help | less" will yield a less screen filled with a row of '~' characters and no possibility to scroll backward. Also, after using some tools (I think it's the same tools that exhibit the strange less behaviour), I am unable to scroll back in the tty (using shift + pg. up) after switching tty then coming back to the tty where the command was used. Among others, "ls" and "mount" exhibit this behaviours, tough there are many more.

Thanks !

EDIT : added that I'm using the ws variant

Questions about install ttylinux on hard disk without initrd file

2011-09-11T14:53:21Z

Dear sir,
ttyLinux is a great project! I have just used ttyLinux on flash disks or cdroms. I found there is NO initrd in lilo config when I install it to hard disk partion using ttylinux-install command. I am using a small kernel with many modules, So my system can't boot without SATA driver. I want to know how to make an initrd file for hard disk boot?
Any reply is appreciated.

could ttylinux boot from a fat32 partition?

2011-08-08T18:38:41Z

I installed the ttylinux arccoding to Flash_Disk_Howto:
$ cp /mnt/cdrom/boot/vmlinuz /mnt/flash/boot/
$ cp /mnt/cdrom/boot/filesys.gz /mnt/flash/boot/
$ cp /mnt/cdrom/config/ttylinux-setup /mnt/flash/config/ttylinux

It boot from grub in a usb disk with fat32, but can't enter a shell. Seems that it stop at the point that print something about ram0.

the command bellow in flash_disk_howto can't work on a fat32 disk:
mknod -m 660 ram0 b 1 0

this is in my menu.lst:
title ttylinux x86_64 12.6
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz initrd=/boot/filesys.gz ro root=/dev/ram0 ttylinux-flash="47B5-5915"
initrd /boot/filesys.gz

Thanks
felix

TTylinux with new C support

2011-07-27T10:42:58Z

Hi,
I have installed the ttylinux 9 on to the KVM-qemu using opennebula tool kit(installed version is ttylinux ver 9.0[RC1] \i486 class \s kernel ) , it runs really well and I could log in to that .
Since it does not supports GCC I went with ws-tylinux-i486-12.6.iso.gz image , I downloaded this and installed through opennebula tool kit on my vm .
I didnt get any erros it installed properly but I couldnot log in to that ...

I checked thorugh my hyervisor API , it shows , its running but I coudnot log in to that ..

I downloaded the ttylinux from http://dev.opennebula.org/attachments/download/355/ttylinux.tar.gz
and ws-tylinux-i486-12.6.iso.gz image from http://www.ttylinux.net/Download/ws-ttylinux-i486-12.6.iso.gz

What may be the problem ..?

regards
Bala

Install C compiler in ttylinux

2011-07-26T15:06:04Z

Hi,
I want to install gcc compiler in ttylinux , how to install and which package should I install ..?