That's a nice idea. You'll still have to have a default location from which to start - which is the challenge of diskless systems :-)
If On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Christopher Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the pointer to /etc/init.d/vyatta-ofr and /etc/default/vyatta. > > What I would likely do is have a config file that has the equivalent of a > "#include" which tries a sequence of locations. > > /mnt/usb/config/config.boot, /mnt/flash/config/config.boot, > /mnt/floppy/config/config.boot,/opt/vyatta/etc/config/config.boot > > By adding a simple "Done" or just having the config files overwrite each > other in reasonable ways, we end up with a live CDROM that can boot on any > machine yet find a configuration file. > > I'm actually going to have to look into a diskless version of Vyatta at some > point. > > Thanks again for the pointers. > > Best, -Chris > > > > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Justin Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's actually a harder problem - you can do it by changing where the > system > > looks for configuration on boot, install to disk and then modify the > > files to change > > what's mounted and where the system looks for the configuration, or build > from > > scratch and create your own LiveCD with the changes in it. > > > > In VC4, look in /etc/init.d/vyatta-ofr, /etc/default/vyatta, and > > /etc/default/vyatta-cfg. > > > > If you make the changes that let the system find the configuration on > > a flash drive, > > be sure to submit them back to the hackers list (or should that be > > forum??) for inclusion > > for others as well :-) > > > > Best, > > Justin > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Christopher Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Is there anyway, other than floppy disk, to have the OFR get a > configuration > > > file on boot from CDROM? I'd love for it to be able to read from a USB > > > thumb drive, load it from a TFTP site (use the standard boot methods to > do > > > so) or in anyway to get a configuration file into the system with out me > > > being at the console. > > > > > > This is glendale VC4, Alpha 1, soon to be Alpha 2. > > > > > > Best, > > > -Chris > > > P.S. I did try load of an URL, and it died. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Vyatta-users mailing list > > > Vyatta-users@mailman.vyatta.com > > > http://mailman.vyatta.com/mailman/listinfo/vyatta-users > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Vyatta-users mailing list > > Vyatta-users@mailman.vyatta.com > > http://mailman.vyatta.com/mailman/listinfo/vyatta-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Vyatta-users mailing list > Vyatta-users@mailman.vyatta.com > http://mailman.vyatta.com/mailman/listinfo/vyatta-users > > _______________________________________________ Vyatta-users mailing list Vyatta-users@mailman.vyatta.com http://mailman.vyatta.com/mailman/listinfo/vyatta-users
