Hi Chris, Citeren Chris Aitken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Interested in setting up embedded firewall/router/VPN gateways using > EmDebian, and a Soekris board, or similar. > I saw you guys at the LUDEX show in London, and that's what sparked the > re-interest. So we did something useful there :-) Well I am going to try to help you as good as I can. > I have followed the thread about Debian router (compressed FS needs) from > the Apr 2004 archives. I have read through the howto by Vadim, and also his > shell script. It seems a good starting point. Well I have no experience with that script, but I can provide you with some useful things. > Vadim requires a statically linked busybox binary to use his script. Would > the Sarge version of busybox-static fulfill this need, or would I have to > take the source (either debian, or vanilla, and compile statically?)? I hope > someone can advise on this issue. Well the sarge version should work. I also made a emdebian package of the latest busybox version you can find it in the download section on stag.mind.be. > Also, if I chose not to use busbox, and hacked away at the thing myself, how > would one start using emdebian. The embedded board would be running an i386 > clone. Well you could use the quickstartguide on my website. The only difference is that you don't have to edit the cross-compile file. Just run dpkg-buildpackage -b -Emdb when compiling (unless you want to use an optimized i386 toolchain or are running debian on a non-i386 system). With the wrappers you can install everything in a seperate dir, which you can share via NFS to boot your Soekris board. There is only one problem. The installation of my tool package is quite hard. Wookey should have a better one, but I don't know where to get it. For the moment you also have to use it with dpkg-cross 1.14 (the 1.16 version is still being tested for full emdebian functionality) Hopefully once all this is done we can release a non-expirimental system and start building away packages. greets, Philippe | Philippe De Swert -GNU/linux - uClinux freak- | | Stag developer http://stag.mind.be/ | Emdebian developer: http://www.emdebian.org | | Please do not send me documents in a closed format. (*.doc,*.xls,*.ppt) | Use the open alternatives. (*.pdf,*.ps,*.html,*.txt) | Why? http://pallieter.is-a-geek.org:7832/~johan/word/english/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gestuurd via het webmailsysteem van het De Nayer Instituut: www.denayer.be
