Re: Formatting the Pretec FA-2002 card.

"Bruno Lopes F. Cabral" <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:50:21 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.wireless.access-point
Organization Openline Internet Ltda, http://www.openline.com.br
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Gunter Burchardt wrote:
> 
> > I bought a Pretec FA-2002 card (2MB) in order to flash
> > my  AP.  The instructions in the card tell me to
> > format the card before use, but I didn't manage to do
> > it neither through IE nor through CardExplorer.  How
> > should I format the card?  The Pretec site suggests
> > using TrueFFS to format the card in Win 95/98.  Hints?
> 
> LinuxAP uses FAT16 with syslinux as bootloader. The make-script
> formates the card for you. Look in scripts/cf_setup.

Hi mr Gunter

the Pretec flash card is used to reflash an WL11000 board.
you're talking about using a _compact flash card_ as a C:
drive to load the ITX/soekris versions of linux AP

these are different things!

hope this helps
!3runo
from Brazil