These notes (mostly) discuss running Leaf 4.x on a Soekris 4801 box, since there is little in the wiki. I will add a few notes to the Leaf Soekris 4801 wiki page after I get permission. The good news is that there is not too much to say since there are no special problems.
I have been using Leaf and it's predecessors through various incarnations back to the original LRP days. I started on a repurposed 486 machine but for quite a while have been using a Soekris 4801 box with Leaf on compact flash. The Soekris box has three RJ45 ports connected to a DSL modem as a router to a local network and a DMZ with a small web server. I like the Soekris box because it is small, silent, and has low power consumption. Yesterday I upgraded Leaf on the Soekris from 3.X to 4.01, and then today upgraded again to beta 4.1 without any problems. The Soekris box requires the natsemi module for the network ports, which is autodetected nicely in both 4.01 and 4.1. Therefore there are no special instructions required on the Soekris box different than would be needed on any headless box installed using a serial connection with the Leaf distribution on compact flash. I used an old Canon branded Sandisk 32 MB Compact Flash card that came with a camera, so I had to leave out a few files. I'm not sure it's a good idea to have the entire Leaf distribution on a production system anyway, so I might try to delete any packages I am not actually using, and maybe try KP's suggestion earlier today to get rid of extra modules. I have a few tiny questions that aren't related to Soekris. 1. I can never get Dropbear's scp to work with a program like Winscp. I briefly tried, but switched to sshd and sftp, which works fine. If anyone knows how to get Dropbear's scp to work, I'd be interested. 2. I had recently been using an alternate resolve.conf file for dnsmasq because it gets overwritten by dhcp. I noticed that resolv.conf is now in configdb.lrp, so if I edit it with opendns server IPs,the changes are saved. Have I got this right, or is there still a danger resolv.conf is overwritten? I could always make an alternate resolv.conf file, put it in configdb, and have dnsmasq use it, which might be safer. I just want to use opendns and not my DSL provider's dns servers. Thanks to the Bering-uClibc 4.x team for all their hard work! Tim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
