On 6 Aug 2004, at 18:25, Aaron wrote:

>
> Hello all. I am trying to fix a problem here. I somehow messed up my 
> Soekris 4501 by bridging the WAN and OPT interface. Now the LAN 
> interface doesn't assign IPs and doesn't respond to anything even if 
> manually assigned. The bridging works fine, but I still want to play 
> and can't. My issue is that can't connect to the console port here (no 
> PC) and can't reset the config since the LAN interface doesn't 
> respond.
>
> My question:
> Can I format the CF card using a card reader under OS X? Is there 
> something else I can do?
>
It works fine, but you have to jump through a few hoops to get round OS 
X's automatic mounting of cards.

What you do is:

Plug the card in via the card reader. Use the Disk utility to see where 
it's been mounted - different brands of card seem to come up as 
different disks, but usually it's something like /dev/disk2 or 
/dev/disk3.

Unmount the card, if Os X has mounted it - you can use Disk Utility to 
do this.

Since Disk Utility can read .iso images you should be able to use that, 
but I haven't got that to work, so I have to use terminal.

Run a terminal, su to root, so you can write to the card and do the 
same as the Unix instructions say:

# pkunzip <mono iso file> | dd of=/dev/disk2 bs=16K

(Assuming the card appeared as /dev/disk2).

Then there will be 30 seconds of activity for the card reader, and it's 
done.

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Andy Holyer, Technical stuff
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