Hi Alby,
Alby schrieb:
>
> Has anybody worked on or figured out how to TFTP-Boot Bering (.LRP)
> packages at boot time? Due to the fact that Floppy Space is a very valuable
> commodity, I don't see why nobody has considered being able to load .lrp
> files from a remote tftp servers.
>
> Is there any hope of this going into the next Bering Version?
>
> PKGPATH=tftp://tftpserver/tftpboot/Would-Be-Nice.lrp
the first question was raised by me and I decided to do it on my
own way. Since I was just looking for a firewall/router package
not necessarily limited to a floppy but with the possibility of
backing up and restoring the config from a central repository.
I decided to invent the wheel again and perhaps I will call
it JACDFWD (Just another CD Firewall Distro, or just "CD-FW one").
This beast is/will be able to do remote configs via tftp and gpg
signed RPM packages. The whole gimmick is a clever initial ramdisk,
building /dev /etc /tmp /var /opt in RAM and mounting /usr /bin /sbin /lib
from the BOOTDISK (CD or what else). On the Bootdisk you can have
any common Linux Distro (Redhat, SuSE, Debian etc. in any version)
the whole bootup and setup stuff is done in the initrd.
You need only RPM on the Linux Distro, because RPM is used to
obackup the system specific config files.
Big advantage: You don't have to manage security updates for all of
your packages, this is done by the big distros, you just update
your master disk and burn a new iso image. All configs are still
valid on the tftp repository (it must not be a tftp, it could
also be done with http, scp, ftp, etc, not so important, since
the packages are signed)
Interested? Time horizont: First RC1 on mid of November
I would need some beta testers.
Regards
Charly
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