On Dec 29, 2005, at 4:35 PM, Dario Freni wrote:
Lee J. Imber wrote:
Hi All,
First off thanks for the cool project. After playing with this for a
few days, lots a useful ideas are jumping out at me!
Here is my situation.
I have box in a colo that is on the West coast that has recently died
(HD). I am in NY.
I need to get that box up asap with minimal configuration.
These are my requirements.
1. /etc/passwd pre-configured with my accounts.
2. /etc/resolv.conf
3. ifconfig_fxp0
4. defaultrouter
5. sshd to start at boot time.
6. Set hostname
7. NTPD
I first started with 1.1 and was able to build working iso's fine
(way
cool)
I was able to get #3,4,5,6,7 of my list to end up on my working iso.
I could not get a /etc/resolv.conf file to be created in the image
and
I also tried to copy a working /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd to
my image and still no go.
I then tried version 2. I am currently in the "building
everything" stage
so I have not had any experience with it yet. I do see the adduser
scripts in the
extra config, but not sure how these work until I start playing.
You can find some documentation on http://wiki.freesbie.org/freesbie2.
Follow the links to have the configuration parameters explained. At
the
moment you have to enable at least etcmfs to have a working image.
The customroot plugin allows you to add your own files to the image
during the build phase. All the content of freesbie2/extra/customroot/
dir will be copied to the / dir of livefs as is. For example, if you
create freesbie2/extra/customroot/etc/resolv.conf it will be copied to
/etc/resolv.conf.
OK cool, how is this done in the 1.1 tree? I know its not being
developed anymore
but I currently have that version installed and building fine. I
tried 2 and I keep getting
build errors (no time to debug) A hint on how 1.1 handles this very
function
will be very helpful.
To set root password you can set it the first time the way Marco said:
chroot /usr/local/freesbie-fs /usr/bin/passwd root
If you don't want to set it everytime you rebuild your iso, you can
put
/usr/local/freesbie-fs/etc/passwd and
/usr/local/freesbie-fs/etc/master.passwd to
freesbie2/extra/customroot/etc/. The login db is recreated
automatically
by customroot plugin.
Sweet. Seems to have worked fine.
One other thing. Unfortunately I do not remember what the
interface is
on my box
on the west coast. I *think* its fxp0 but not 100%. I saw in the
rc.conf on the 1.1 install
a neat script to sorta do a dhcp on all the interfaces it finds.
Is it
possible for me
to take advantage of the script and set the static IP for every
interface it finds.
Adding ifconfig_DEFAULT="DHCP" in /etc/rc.conf SHOULD work, as this is
what devd looks for if it doesn't find a specifical variable set
for the
interface. Make also sure devd is starting by adding devd_enable="YES"
Remember you can also add those to freesbie2/extra/customroot/etc/
rc.conf
OK, this is true if it's a static IP that will be assigned? Can I
just change
the "DHCP" to "inet foo netmask bar" ?
Once I have a working image I need to ship it to the colo where some
admin will just
throw the cd in and boot the box (with my fingers crossed) :)
If anyone has any pointers or a simple "howto" on configuring the
above
requirements it would be a HUGE help! I also would like to donate my
findings and experience in either contributing some documentation,
hardware or $
to help the project along.
Once you're done, you can improve our wiki documentation. If you have
some hardware to donate, just mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to
donate money, use paypal link on the site.
Great, will do.
Cheers,
Lee
Bye and thanks,
Dario
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