Miniroot7020 - a multiboot solution for the 7020

By noggie

I quite often hang around at http://sat-industry.net/forums
For support, try there first.

Install at your own risk bla-bla-bla.

Quick installation:
1) Ftp the .ipk file to the /tmp directory of your dreambox 7020
2) Run the command (telnet) "ipkg install /tmp/miniroot7020_<version>_powerpc.ipk"
   Replace <version> with the actual version, of course.
3) Restart your dreambox.
4) From the boot menu, set up your network, then boot from flash to see that
   the original image is still usable.
5) Reboot again, go to WEB mode in the boot menu, and use your browser to
   install images.

To uninstall:
Boot from flash.
Run the command (telnet) "ipkg remove miniroot7020".

This is still beta software, meaning that there is still functionality that has
received little or no testing.

Using this software, you're supposed to be able to install and boot both 7020 images
(.nfi format) and 7000 images (.img) images on either USB memory sticks, CF cards,
HDD, CIFS or NFS.  Please let me know if any of these combinations doesn't work.

I know there are 7000 images that will cause problems on network shares.  Nobody's
fault really.  It's just that some images assume that the network can be brought down
without causing problems.  This just won't be the case when booting off the network in
the first place.
