Hi KP
thanks for taking the time.
KP Kirchdoerfer wrote:
Hello Erich;
Am Mittwoch, 3. Mai 2006 14:12 schrieb Erich Titl:
Hi gents
I finally decided to jump the uClibc bandwagon and got 2.4.1 running as
secondary system on my nexgate NSA 1125 platform (flash boot, lots of
interfaces ...).
Welcome on bord!
Captain, would you mind to show me the bridge?
..
Yes this leaf.cfg is for an ISO-image, using a floppy as storage device.
I am aware that new, embedded systems often has no fd - but for those systems
we suggest pxeinstall to build a bootable LEAF router.
Yes, my goal was to see if there was a remote upgrade way, and I believe
there is, but you have hardly any margin for errors. That's why I chose
the double OS.
A few power cycles later I found the reason, why my system would not
show anything after init. Although my boot configuration was set to
serial console (no video card) the serial console support was missing in
/etc/inittab. Back to the original boot, tearing apart etc.lrp and
uncommenting the missing item set me up with a command prompt after reboot.
You would have found an /etc/initabs (with serial support) in the pxeinstall
package. I admit it's not documented in our guides that such an inittab is
available.
The iso image would hardly grow with an archive of nicely preformatted
files :-)
.... which set me back shortly as there was no vi in the module list I
selected. Adding elvis only helped marginally, as it depends on
ncurses... boooohh we may need to go to another packet manager one day.
So, three more power cycles.
You could have saved all or at least one of the cycles, if you have either
choosed "e3vi" to edit inittab or read the "packages page" where you would
have found that elvis requires ncurses.lrp.
Was this not linked to vi in the old Bering? And I have this nasty habit
of expecting a package to hold all dependencies. I know this has been
discussed over and over, maybe one day we will have a package manager
which resolves dependencies.
After finally getting network connectivity, setting up sshd and trying
to connect I got bitten again by the sshd being controlled by tcp
wrappers. OK, this was discussed a while ago in leaf-devel but I got
bitten nevertheless. Fortunately vi was at hand to fix the hosts.allow
file. Aahhh... finally I can log in through the network interface and
use scp to copy the remaining .lrp files to the flash disk.
So I finally succeeded. I must admit, my set up is not the easiest to
start with and I could not have done this without a serial console to
cover my configuration mistakes. This brings up the question of remote
updates, which IMHO should be something easy.
Yes, should be, but unfortunately isn't at the time being.
But as you can see, some things could have been easier, it's just a question
how to make shure a user find the installation helpers, find what he is
looking for, in the Guides...an index would be a nice thing.
Yes I know, but manuals are for wimps (or so they say) :-(
At least I know now some/most of the gotchas. Maybe there is a way to
convert this to a Wiki for others to fall into the same pit gnnnn....
Next task will be to finally get the development environment to work.
cheers and thanks
Erich
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