Re: [Leaf-user] Oxygen + TFTP boot
David Douthitt wrote: If you use tftp://somesite/lrp.conf or something like that for a source (after disk packages are loaded) then it should work. lrp.conf needs to have a list of packages to load. I forget the full details, but it should be in syslinux.cfg - or at least some details should be there. Loading packages this way instead of using netload would also mean that when the FTP server starts the network is present and operational. That's neat. I think I should have tried the tftp route when I was first finding a way to make it all work, because the tftpd doesn't do the dns checking. Thanks for all your hard work and for making a boot time solution, Matt ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
Re: [Leaf-user] Oxygen + TFTP boot
Brett J. Hoffman wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone has any information on getting Oxygen to boot with TFTP or has any documentation to point me in the right direction. - Thanks - Brett Hoffman Last I tried, loading packages via the net worked well with Oxygen. If I remember correctly, you just have it boot up all the way to a prompt, and as your last startup script, create one that runs the netload program. Netload is a script written by David that is front end for snarf, which can get files via ftp, tftp, and other ways. I make it use ftp and load all my packages that way. It's easy to have only one floppy that way. The only hitch on my setup is that my Unix FTP server won't function properly unless it has net access. So just before I load all my packages via netload, I have to issue an ipchains -A accept -j MASQ -s 10.1.1.0/24 to let traffic flow. (Probably a dns issue.) Best, Matthew ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
Re: [Leaf-user] Oxygen + TFTP boot
Matt Schalit wrote: Brett J. Hoffman wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone has any information on getting Oxygen to boot with TFTP or has any documentation to point me in the right direction. - Thanks - Brett Hoffman Last I tried, loading packages via the net worked well with Oxygen. If I remember correctly, you just have it boot up all the way to a prompt, and as your last startup script, create one that runs the netload program. Netload is a script written by David that is front end for snarf, which can get files via ftp, tftp, and other ways. I make it use ftp and load all my packages that way. It's easy to have only one floppy that way. The only hitch on my setup is that my Unix FTP server won't function properly unless it has net access. So just before I load all my packages via netload, I have to issue an ipchains -A accept -j MASQ -s 10.1.1.0/24 to let traffic flow. (Probably a dns issue.) If you use tftp://somesite/lrp.conf or something like that for a source (after disk packages are loaded) then it should work. lrp.conf needs to have a list of packages to load. I forget the full details, but it should be in syslinux.cfg - or at least some details should be there. Loading packages this way instead of using netload would also mean that when the FTP server starts the network is present and operational. ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
Re: [Leaf-user] Oxygen + TFTP boot
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... ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
[Leaf-user] Oxygen + TFTP boot
Hi, I was wondering if anyone has any information on getting Oxygen to boot with TFTP or has any documentation to point me in the right direction. - Thanks - Brett Hoffman ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
RE: [Leaf-user] Oxygen + TFTP boot
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. 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. :) 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. :) - Take Care - Brett -Original Message- From: Victor McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 6:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] Oxygen + TFTP boot Instead of enabling ftp on a router, why not add sshd and you can transfer files back and forth using Putty. There is even a graphical windows client that will securely transfer files to and from your router - iXplorer. It is easy to use, its graphical, its secure, and its free. It looks like a graphical ftp client but uses ssh. I don't use it that often, but occasionally it comes in handy to the LRP box. Don't need to add any software to the LRP, just uses the existing sshd connection. http://tucows.gironet.nl/win2k/preview/144871.html ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
