SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

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  1. Connect Eth0 on Soekris to port 20 on one of the pod switches
  2. Connect a serial cable to the serial ports on the Soekris and a convenient workstation.
  3. Use a terminal emulator such as cu on the NetBSD boxes - 'cu -19200 -l /dev/tty00' should work
  4. Power up the Soekris and interupt the boot sequence using Ctrl-P. This should give a '>' prompt.
  5. Enter the command ' boot f0 '
  6. Soekris should boot from the network with lots of text scrolling past. Eventually you should get a Unix login prompt.
  7. Login as root with no password.
  8. Depending on the Soekris model, type mk4501 or mk5501. (5501s need some more work at present)
  9. Program should configure the Compact Flash and load software onto the flash drive.
  10. Reconnect Eth0 on the router to a switch trunk port (21-24 at present) and reboot.
  11. Login via the console as (root,Chabiy8I)
  12. Ping 172.22.3.4 to check load has worked.