From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jun 3 23:06:08 2003 Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 09:05:59 +1200 From: Steve Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Erich Titl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [leaf-user] syslinux question: putting bering on a diskonchip
Erich Titl wrote:
Hi Marc
Marc E. Fiuczynski wrote the following at 19:27 03.06.2003:
I am using a linux rescue disk to copy over a bering distribution to the disk-on-chip device.
If the system reconizes the disk as an IDE device, I would believe it. Some time ago I had difficulties running syslinux on my bering system. IIRC it was due to a permission problem. I used an old DOS disk then to prepare my DoM and it went smoothly (actually I am a little ashamed to have to resort to a M$product to do that, but then, resources are resources....)
If people feel strongly about using a ms product to do this (I would), then this is what I do.
On my old RedHat 7.3 I have installed LTSP, a thin-client terminal server package. This allows me to boot any old piece of junk on my local LAN as a thin client.
I hacked the base LTSP installation so the thin-clients run with a modified /etc/passd - with an entry for a root login.
Now it is completely trivial to bring along any i386 LEAF router, plug into LAN, etherboot/PXE boot as a thin terminal (local HDD/DOM not used), load IDE modules, mount DOM, and copy across what ever I need, unmount, sync, reboot, test. Dead easy, and fast.
Further hacking of the LTSP code would likely render a complete development environment for DOM-type routers. /niiice/. If anyone wants to build such a thing, I would be happy to assist as I know LTSP quite well. I'm a bit busy to do it ALL myself right now. 8-)
http://ltsp.org http://k12ltsp.org
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