Jacques this is certainly a great thing.
At 07:50 05.11.2002, you wrote:
This is IMHO the other messy part. Backup IIRC as it is right now only accepts a block device to back up to. If backup could handle different backup destinations we might be able to, for example, back up to a directory , which would make it a lot easier to build configurations, back them up to memory and use it as is to move it to other media. Right now the easiest way for me is to use a flash disk which has enough capacity to hold a full blown router (> 1.68 M) in one piece.Le Jeudi 31 Octobre 2002 19:47, Michael Bonner a �crit : > Hi All, > > I'm running bering on a Soekris net 4501 for my firewall on my home > network. I'm not really happy about having my CF card exposed for > hacking if someone compromises my firewall (and yes I've been following > the DOC write protection threads). I'd like to take advantage of the > PXE Boot capabilities and run Bering using the PXELinux loader. > > Has anyone tried this before? Any suggestions or issues I should be > aware of before I dive in? That is a vering interesting issue. In fact I am thinking about implementing this feature, perhaps for v1.0 final. Basically the route to follow is the following: Install pxelinux on your tftp server Hack Bering /linuxrc to be able to read the packages from the tftfp server rather than from the floppy. So you would need to a statement like boot=/tfpt/192.168.1.20 in your pxelinux.cfg file (192.168.1.20 being the IP address of your server). This is the messy part of the job since /linuxrc is a bit messy and would in fact need a fresh rewrite to begin with... That is basically all unless you want to be able to backup the packages to the server in which case you will have to hack the backup scripts as well.
Do you believe linuxrc could be modified to use other means accessing the configuration data (NFS). I remember HP X-Terminals which could either load from bootp or NFS.Also tftp client from busybos would have to be added. Any reaction from the devel list on this ?
I don't know PXE but is it possible to load from DHCP?
Just a few thoughts.
Have fun and thanks for the great work.
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