Undocumented Sanity

Concept After successfully installing Mandrake Linux on my Cisco CE560, I decided the next "logical" step was to attempt to install CallManager on my Cisco Content Router 4430 (CR4430). The hardware appears to be identical except for slightly different memory configuration and different hard drive configuration. Hardware The Cisco CR4430 has the following hardware characteristics : Intel Pentium III 600 MHz 4x256 MB SDRAM Symbios sym53c8xx SCSI controller 1x18GB 80-pin Ultra3 LVD SCSI Hard Drive (my hard drive was bad, so I ended up using one of the 36GB drives from the CE560) Asiliant 69000 Video Adapter with 16-pin output header (pinout unknown) (Win2K sees this as a Chips and Technologies 69000) 2xIntel 82559 Ethernet Adapters (Windows sees these as Intel Pro/100B network adapters) RJ-45 Serial Console port at 9600,8,N,1 Note: Can only boot from floppy or SCSI (or Flash)! Preparation In order to pull this off, I used the following items: Cisco Console cable A laptop with ...

Concept I originally thought about this after reading this article , and soon I set off to install Linux on my Cisco CE560. My first attempts to install using Sarge failed, since Etch is now the current version, and Sarge is now " oldstable ". I was also unable to successfully boot the floppy install of Etch for some reason. Using some of the steps from the aforementioned article, I was able to successfully install Mandrake 10.1 on my content engine. Hardware The Cisco CE560 has the following hardware characteristics : Intel Pentium III 600 MHz 2x512 MB SDRAM Symbios sym53c8xx SCSI controller 2x36GB 80-pin Ultra2 LVD SCSI Hard Drives Asiliant 69000 Video Adapter with 16-pin output header (pinout unknown) 2xIntel 82559 Ethernet Adapters (Linux driver is e100) RJ-45 Serial Console port at 9600,8,N,1 Note: Can only boot from floppy or SCSI! Preparation In order to pull this off, I used the following items: Cisco Console cable A laptop with Windows using Hyperterminal Floppy Dri...