Hi All, I'm having probs configuring the floppyfw package from www.zelow.no by thomasez. This package provides a small debian based distro configured which loads from a floppy into RAM for firewalling. I know Ken Yap is somewhat familiar with this package as he has used this for his EtherBoot. Basically I have downloaded the floppy image and dd'ed it to a floppy (note 1.44M DOS) but this base system is setup for an ether interface on both sides of the firewall as its designed for a cable connection. *** This base system boots fine and a nice Linux system in RAM is created *** BUT I need to add a PPP module. There are contributed ppp modules which are to be placed in a packages directory on the floppy. You can see the packages directory on an ls of the floppy but I can't copy the ppp.o module into there as the ppp.o modules is 130k and there is no space left on the floppy. QUESTION 1: anyone familiar with this package to tell me how you add contributed modules when there is no space to put them? OK so I decided to make a Linux ext2 format bigger capacity floppy from the DOS 1.44M one: 1. copied everything from the DOS image floppy to a temp directory on my hard disk, copied the contributed ppp.o module into the packages directory. 2. made a new floppy disk formatted with 'fdformat fd0u1772' then '/sbin/mkfs.ext2 -cm0 /dev/fd0' 3. copied all the files back to the new floppy (they fit now) 4. tried to boot the new floppy. INVALID BOOT DISKETTE OK tried a normal 1.44M disk. $ fdformat /dev/fd0h1440 $ /sbin/mkfs -t msdos -c -v /dev/fd0 $ dd if=floppyfw-1.0.9.img of=/dev/fd0 Also does not boot with the same error. I suspect that it does not boot as I need an actual 'boot floppy' with 'the things' in the boot track which point to the valid kernel image. So I made a boot floppy with an old RedHat script mkbootdisk then copied the floppyfw files onto this floppy. Didn't work - hangs at LILO start ie LIL..... Probably cause its bootdisk is setup to point to a kernel image boot/vmlinux-2.0.36-.07 rather than just vmlinuz in the root directory of the floppyfw disk. QUESTION 2: How do I make a Linux boot floppy with the floppyfw stuff on it - ie not a bootdisk for my current distro. Our systems here are an Athlon running SUSE and an Alpha running Debian. Neither use mkbootdisk they have their own scripts which I am yet to discover. Our old RedHat 5.2 will be used to be the firewall with floppyfw. QUESTION 3: What are other persons using for single floppy/RAM based firewalls. Mike -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Lake Active caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. Safety Convenor, Australian Speleological Federation Owner, Speleonics (Australia) -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
