Re: [Leaf-user] Now here's an interesting auction
At 07:54 AM 6/18/01 -0400, James Barrett wrote: I remember there used to be those places where you entered what you wanted and an image was built for you -- do they still exist anywhere? No, at least not if you mean in a LEAF or LRP context. There was modmaker, a system used with LRP 2.9.3 to make modules.lrp packages. The same guy who did modmaker, Paul Wouters (I think), did build a site that created custom images (you might find its URL still listed on lrp.c0wz.com). As I recall, though, the site wasn't maintained and does not work with any modern version of LEAF or LRP. But my memory could be wrong. Please check the links at c0wx to be sure. -- Never tell me the odds!--- Ray Olszewski-- Han Solo Palo Alto, CA[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
Re: [Leaf-user] Now here's an interesting auction
I would find it valuable as I have not yet been able to find anyone willing to compile a 2.2.16 w/patches for VPN Masq'ing (or 2.2.18 or 2.0.38) kernel with the FPU emulation for a 486SX2. I can easily get the modules I need to build my own disk -- the problem I'm having is finding the right compiled kernel. Thanks, -James - Original Message - From: James Sturdevant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 2:42 PM Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] Now here's an interesting auction Actually, I made the changes to Paul's modmaker to create LRPGen. Paul hosted it for a while to test it. I gave up on it when I couldn't make it work on WinXX machines with 1.68MB formats and it appeared that the newer, unofficial releases were getting more support and use. (Dave's attitude didn't help either.) I have given some thought recently to restarting it as part of the LEAF project. I will need a number of things to make it viable: - a version of rawrite which can support 1.68MB formats. - a description of the directory structure on sourceforge for the LEAF project - ideas for defining the custom values in packages - an indication that this is worth the effort JamesS At 10:06 AM 6/18/01 -0700, Ray Olszewski wrote: At 07:54 AM 6/18/01 -0400, James Barrett wrote: I remember there used to be those places where you entered what you wanted and an image was built for you -- do they still exist anywhere? No, at least not if you mean in a LEAF or LRP context. There was modmaker, a system used with LRP 2.9.3 to make modules.lrp packages. The same guy who did modmaker, Paul Wouters (I think), did build a site that created custom images (you might find its URL still listed on lrp.c0wz.com). As I recall, though, the site wasn't maintained and does not work with any modern version of LEAF or LRP. But my memory could be wrong. Please check the links at c0wx to be sure. -- Never tell me the odds!--- Ray Olszewski-- Han Solo Palo Alto, CA[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
RE: [Leaf-user] Now here's an interesting auction
Morning all, I think some of you missed my point. I am not really interested in using freesco, more to the point: 1. It was interesting to see someone trying to make a go of selling computers with a floppy based firewall. 2. Since they claim it runs in 6 MB, I would be interested in seeing how they have the web-based setup routine work in the limited space. 3. I wonder if the web based setup would be something that could be adapted to LRP without alot of overhead (mainly space requirements). I am glad to see some have used it before. My question to you all is, what is the setup routine like? Was it comprehensive? Was it web-based or text-based? I have only tried Oxygen's setup a couple of times, and it is effective, but unless you know the layout of the system and where you should edit for your situation, it can be a little difficult to configure. Now, in all honesty, I have not RTFM's, I have perused them and thought I could figure it out as I went. I was only half effective in that approach. The weird thought I had was what if, like in Oxygen, you had a basic boot disk, then you loaded whatever data disk you wanted, followed only on the initial boot, a setup diskette. The setup diskette would do the grunt work of setting up the basic system (web-based with brief explanations on the various screens of what needed to go where). Then you could use the package system to setup the individual packages as needed. I hope all that made some sense, and more importantly, I hope I have my facts straight on Oxygen since I have only used it twice like I said. It took me about a week the first time I tried LRP to figure out that when I rebooted, the settings weren't being saved (ramdisk...D'OH!). If I am wrong, or misguided, I apologize and would appreciate being pointed in the right direction. Thanks, Tony P.S. The DNS scans have faded out for the most part, but it seems to be tied to that damn X-10 advertisement. Whenever I have one pop up, I get scanned. I can go for a week or two, nothing, then boom, scan-o-rama. I implemented the filter pointing to an external file with the IP's listed and that has taken care of it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of kp vander kleut Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 06:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: David Zilm Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] Now here's an interesting auction Hi, last I checked (some months ago) Freesco did only Modem (PPP)lines, no dsl or cable or ethernet, running on a 2.0.36 kernel. their webconfig is a nice setup though slightly confusing at times. Didn't try to find out more because I prefer 2.2.* kernels and use a cable modem. if you decide to try and adept some of it for LRP I would be intrested of course (as would others I presume). I read through their site quickly and found a newer release than the one I saw some time back, they apperently support eth-eth and cable nowadays, maybe I'll take another shot at it. I couldn't find a kernel version in their docs quickly, don't now whether they use ipchains or tables. (They do have a nice setup manual) Good luck Greetings Peter vanderkleut - Original Message - From: David Zilm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 10:42 AM Subject: [Leaf-user] Now here's an interesting auction Message: 1 From: Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 11:08:31 -0400 Subject: [Leaf-user] OT: Now here's an interesting auction Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] First, Hi to all the recently displaced (?) LRP list members, glad to join you over here. Second, sorry about the off topic post, but have a look at this enterprising lad: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1245384063 Has anyone tried this freesco yet? I am not interested in using it, but I am interested in the web config they tout. That would be interesting considering they say it runs in as little as 6 MB. Later Tony Yes. It works, but in my experience 8MB would be the limit these days. You cant load any additional monitoring functions in 12MB, so 6MB is just a bit wishful thinking. 32MB SDRAM should permit some utilities (like top, accounting etc) to also run. Like LRP, the P133 is an overkill for the job (gee's a 486DX66 would suffice for DSL) It does write some stuff to floppy/hdd though (config based stuff) automatically A unique way to sell a PC I suppose. -- - Dave Melbourne, Victoria, Australia mailto: dzilm@!melbpc.org.au-without-the-! ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
Re: [Leaf-user] Now here's an interesting auction
About 8 months ago, when I was trying to get LRP up and running, I was getting very frustrated. Freesco was configured in running in 15 minutes and worked great. The documentation and setup by script was easy. I wanted the flexibility of LRP, though, but I couldn't get anything to load properly given the images that I had. I had even tried a couple different custom-image configuration sites on the net with no luck... Then I found EigerStein. thanks, Charles. mike. Tony wrote: Morning all, I think some of you missed my point. I am not really interested in using freesco, more to the point: 1. It was interesting to see someone trying to make a go of selling computers with a floppy based firewall. 2. Since they claim it runs in 6 MB, I would be interested in seeing how they have the web-based setup routine work in the limited space. 3. I wonder if the web based setup would be something that could be adapted to LRP without alot of overhead (mainly space requirements). I am glad to see some have used it before. My question to you all is, what is the setup routine like? Was it comprehensive? Was it web-based or text-based? I have only tried Oxygen's setup a couple of times, and it is effective, but unless you know the layout of the system and where you should edit for your situation, it can be a little difficult to configure. Now, in all honesty, I have not RTFM's, I have perused them and thought I could figure it out as I went. I was only half effective in that approach. The weird thought I had was what if, like in Oxygen, you had a basic boot disk, then you loaded whatever data disk you wanted, followed only on the initial boot, a setup diskette. The setup diskette would do the grunt work of setting up the basic system (web-based with brief explanations on the various screens of what needed to go where). Then you could use the package system to setup the individual packages as needed. I hope all that made some sense, and more importantly, I hope I have my facts straight on Oxygen since I have only used it twice like I said. It took me about a week the first time I tried LRP to figure out that when I rebooted, the settings weren't being saved (ramdisk...D'OH!). If I am wrong, or misguided, I apologize and would appreciate being pointed in the right direction. Thanks, Tony P.S. The DNS scans have faded out for the most part, but it seems to be tied to that damn X-10 advertisement. Whenever I have one pop up, I get scanned. I can go for a week or two, nothing, then boom, scan-o-rama. I implemented the filter pointing to an external file with the IP's listed and that has taken care of it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of kp vander kleut Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 06:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: David Zilm Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] Now here's an interesting auction Hi, last I checked (some months ago) Freesco did only Modem (PPP)lines, no dsl or cable or ethernet, running on a 2.0.36 kernel. their webconfig is a nice setup though slightly confusing at times. Didn't try to find out more because I prefer 2.2.* kernels and use a cable modem. if you decide to try and adept some of it for LRP I would be intrested of course (as would others I presume). I read through their site quickly and found a newer release than the one I saw some time back, they apperently support eth-eth and cable nowadays, maybe I'll take another shot at it. I couldn't find a kernel version in their docs quickly, don't now whether they use ipchains or tables. (They do have a nice setup manual) Good luck Greetings Peter vanderkleut - Original Message - From: David Zilm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 10:42 AM Subject: [Leaf-user] Now here's an interesting auction Message: 1 From: Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 11:08:31 -0400 Subject: [Leaf-user] OT: Now here's an interesting auction Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] First, Hi to all the recently displaced (?) LRP list members, glad to join you over here. Second, sorry about the off topic post, but have a look at this enterprising lad: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1245384063 Has anyone tried this freesco yet? I am not interested in using it, but I am interested in the web config they tout. That would be interesting considering they say it runs in as little as 6 MB. Later Tony Yes. It works, but in my experience 8MB would be the limit these days. You cant load any additional monitoring functions in 12MB, so 6MB is just a bit wishful thinking. 32MB SDRAM should permit some utilities (like top, accounting etc) to also run. Like LRP, the P133 is an overkill for the job (gee's a 486DX66 would suffice for DSL) It does
