"Brett J. Hoffman" wrote:
>
> I don't want to transfer files back and forth from my router, apparently
> with the Oxygen release you can have it load files via tftp from a tftp
> server, so instead of requiring two floppy disks, I can just stick one
> in, and then load whatever else I need via tftp.
Exactly so. The documentation should be in syslinux.cfg on the boot
disk. As Matt said, look at the netload configuration. To abridge that
document (if I remember correctly), you use the PKGLOAD parameter to
specify a URL (tftp://some.host) instead of a disk device. FTP, TFTP,
HTTP, and GOPHER are all available for use.
Then, at the server site, you put in all the packages you want and a
lrp.conf file (or something like that) to load the packages you want.
This file has a list of packages to load.
> I could take this one step farther too, and see about booting the kernel
> via tftp as well. So you could essentially go floppy less and hard drive
> less on your lil' lrp router. Plus you really wouldn't have to really
> worry about fitting everything onto one little floppy either. :)
The linux kernel is loaded by the boot loader, which in this case is
syslinux. There is pxelinux which supports loading using TFTP and a
NetBoot ROM for your Ethernet Card; I've not used it.
> I've gotten everything I really need to fit onto one floppy, although
> the booting of .lrp packages sounded cool and wanted to know if anyone
> has done it. Basically I know you can do it, so I want to do it. :)
I've used it to load packages via http before...
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