Re: netboot different behavior on ROM 01 and 03 GS

[Ivan X <ivanxqz@yahoo.com>]

On 1/8/11 9:16 AM, in article f_udnT750Ms87LXQnZ2dnUVZ_tGdnZ2d@giganews.com,
"Steven Hirsch" <snhirsch@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 01/07/2011 07:59 AM, Ivan X wrote:
> 
>> Netatalk 2.1.5 (compiled from source, with randnum authentication and
>> netboot) runs very nicely in Ubuntu Server 10.10 under VirtualBox 4.0.0.
> 
> And, although it appears to violate some of the more nit-picky aspects of the
> protocol definition, it's a good idea to apply my one-line patch to preserve
> file modification stamps.  Without it, file copied to the server from a IIe
> client receive the current time.  I greatly prefer having the modification
> time preserved.

Yes. In my setup, and instructions for it, I apply that.

> There were a handful of small fixes required to the Ubuntu package.  I sent
> them to pitz since he appeared to be working on a release to the community.

By "fixes" what do you mean? Apart from having to install the various
library packages you originally outlined, I didn't have to make any changes
to Ubuntu itself; as for netatalk, there were a small handful, such as your
date mod, and editing of its init.d script (and its config scripts, of
course).

>> Every LocalTalk-to-Ethernet transceiver I've tried is still flawed in one
>> way or another (and I've not yet obtained the fabled GatorBox CS). Here's
>> the rundown:

> Yea, verily...  Geoff Body has been plugging away at network traces to
> evaluate why the Farallon devices drop sessions on some boxes and work on
> others.  I owe him a couple more captures (and a large debt of gratitude for
> taking this on!).

I'd love to hear the results from that too. I'm even more mystified as to
why the Asante and Dayna devices cause GS/OS to turn the pointer into a
blotch and otherwise hang when the AppleShare CDEV is opened.