RE: Formatting the Pretec FA-2002 card.

Sorry for "hijacking" this thread, but it´s related...

I´ve got a "4Mb Flash Card" from "Smart Technologies", i think it´s from
a Cisco router. How can i know if its ok for flashing APs?

Thanks for your help!!

Un saludo:
Oscar G. Tropic
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> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: [email protected] [mailto:linuxap-dev-
> [email protected]] En nombre de Bruno Lopes F. Cabral
> Enviado el: viernes, 10 de octubre de 2003 17:50
> Para: Linux Access Point Development
> Asunto: Re: [LinuxAP-dev] Formatting the Pretec FA-2002 card.
> 
> 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
> 
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