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IIRC, a USB keys can be formatted as a floppy type device
(ie: one partition), or as a HDD (ie: 4 primary partitions).
It should be possible to make an image that has an HDD
partition table with
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Subject: RE: [leaf-devel] lwp (webconf) packages
Hi!
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IIRC, a USB keys can
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Subject: RE: [leaf-devel] lwp (webconf) packages
Hi!
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From: Charles Steinkuehler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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IIRC, a USB keys can be formatted as a floppy type device
(ie: one partition), or as a HDD (ie: 4 primary partitions).
It should
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 08:50, Mike Noyes wrote:
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 00:59, Luis.F.Correia wrote:
But I'm willing to 'sacrifice' one of my USB sticks
Luis,
I think backing up your USB drive's MBR using dd should avoid any
sacrifice. It should probably be a recommended first step.
Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
It should be possible to make an image that has an HDD partition table
with a smallish (ie: maybe 8 Megs or so, still a *LOT* bigger than a
floppy) FAT partition containing the boot files as the first partition.
The remaining space could be unused, or formatted and
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 17:24, Mike Noyes wrote:
Looking a bit further on the puppy linux site revealed they have a
script for initializing a bootable usb drive.
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/USB
Another alternative is that you can install Puppy
totally
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 10:51, Mike Noyes wrote:
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 09:14, David Douthitt wrote:
The makebootfat utility that was mentioned previously should be able to
do that. According to their docs:
The USB-HDD (Hard Disk Drive) standard is the preferred
choice [...]
Missed the cc: earlier ...
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2.4 is fine as-is: people using it for production systems are not likely
to move off it for a long time (if ever). You have it, it works, there's
little impetus in general to move to anything else, with all the
additional effort/risk/cost
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 17:19, Mike Noyes wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 12:50, Nathan Angelacos wrote:
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 15:03, Eric Spakman wrote:
Who is going to put the available lwp packages in
leaf/bin/config/webconf? Just a question.
I can take care of the ones that
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 02:43, Eric Spakman wrote:
Can someone take a look at this link and create some script around it
which creates an USB-flash image?
Makebootfat Bootable FAT Disk Creation
7 Multi Standard USB Booting
http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc-makebootfat.html
Eric,
I
Hi Mike,
The problem with this kind of tools is that they expect a real USB-key
available with a certain size. The problem is that we need to create and
image where a few aspects are uncertain:
-The size of the usb-key (Mbytes)
-Geometry
We need a generic tool which creates a bootable image that
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 08:11, Andrea Fino wrote:
Mike Noyes wrote:
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 02:43, Eric Spakman wrote:
Can someone take a look at this link and create some script around it
which creates an USB-flash image?
Makebootfat Bootable FAT Disk Creation
7 Multi Standard USB Booting
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 09:07, Mike Noyes wrote:
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 08:11, Andrea Fino wrote:
I am wondering if may be used an ext2 filesystem. With that and extlinux
(present in the last syslinux distribution) I think it's easy to boot
from usb (and others).
Does Andrea's suggestion
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Eric Spakman wrote:
Hi Mike,
The problem with this kind of tools is that they expect a real USB-key
available with a certain size. The problem is that we need to create and
image where a few aspects are uncertain:
-The size of the usb-key
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 07:47, Mike Noyes wrote:
Understood. I'll keep looking.
Eric,
I found this usb page at the Puppy Linux project. I know it's not much.
I hope Charles' suggestion is of better utility.
The Puppy Working USB Page
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/USBWorking
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On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 07:22, Nathan Angelacos wrote:
Have you or anyone else on the bering-uclibc team asked for help?
I have. If you have time, please search the mailing lists for the words
webconf development [BTW - Webconf isn't just bering-uClibc - it works
with classic Bering as
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 07:09, KP Kirchdoerfer wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 15. März 2006 15:48 schrieb Mike Noyes:
Have you or anyone else on the bering-uclibc team asked for help?
Yes, the framework and the lack of lwp's has been mentioned from to time on
the leaf lists.
KP,
Do you have a plan to
Hello Mike,
rant To get to these links, I went to http://leaf.sourceforge.net -
Developers (box at top) - Angelacos, Nathan (What's Related Box) -
Webconf
(UI Box) Not exactly where I would look it I wanted to develop a web
interface for LEAF /rant
I agree. I thought this content was
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 08:03, Eric Spakman wrote:
I agree. I thought this content was incorporated into the bering-uclibc
documentation. :-(
It is:
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/guide/buc-devel.html
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/guide/buc-install.html
Eric,
Hum, a google search using
Hello Mike,
I agree. I thought this content was incorporated into the
bering-uclibc documentation. :-(
It is:
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/guide/buc-devel.html
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/guide/buc-install.html
Eric,
Hum, a google search using site:leaf.sourceforge.net lwp only
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 08:57, Eric Spakman wrote:
To get things going: can you make a link from the mainpage to the lwp
development documentation in the Bering-uClibc section?
Eric,
I think an article for the hub is in order. That would give links and
information. KP or I can post it, but I
Mike,
I fully recognize that nobody else is stepping up as Documentation/Website
Admin, and we all appreciate the job you are doing. I hope you'll take
these as comments of what one person sees could make things a little better.
Its just my perspective - and you are more than welcome to
Hello Mike,
-Does someone know how to create an image which can be installed on a
USB-flash key? Is there some sort of tool (GPL) available which creates
such an image and/or makes a flash disk bootable?
I think DSL has documentation on this.
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 12:48, Mike Noyes wrote:
Also it would be
nice if the contents of Nathan's CVS space could be moved to a more
generic place (I think we need Kp for this).
This requires opening a SR with the SF staff. Any one of our project
admins can do this.
Clarfication -
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 09:58, Nathan Angelacos wrote:
I fully recognize that nobody else is stepping up as Documentation/Website
Admin, and we all appreciate the job you are doing.
Nathan,
Unfortunately, I'm not doing a very good job. :-(
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 11:02, Mike Noyes wrote:
Hello Nathan,
Also it would be
nice if the contents of Nathan's CVS space could be moved to a more
generic place (I think we need Kp for this).
This requires opening a SR with the SF staff. Any one of our project
admins can do this.
Clarfication -
webconf (the core) is already in
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 10:09, Nathan Angelacos wrote:
What's NOT in leaf/src/config/webconf is all of the .lwp's (anything beyond
webconf.lrp / webconf.lwp)Perhaps there's a place for them in the same
spot.
Nathan,
How about a new directory in src/config called lwp? We can open that
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 10:34, Eric Spakman wrote:
What's NOT in leaf/src/config/webconf is all of the .lwp's (anything
beyond webconf.lrp / webconf.lwp)Perhaps there's a place for them in
the same spot.
leaf/bin/config/webconf?
Mike, do you agree?
Eric,
Either location is
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 13:40, Mike Noyes wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 10:09, Nathan Angelacos wrote:
What's NOT in leaf/src/config/webconf is all of the .lwp's (anything
beyond webconf.lrp / webconf.lwp)Perhaps there's a place for them in
the same spot.
Nathan,
How about a new
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 10:09, Eric Spakman wrote:
http://wiki.debian.org/BootUsb
This would be the same sort of setup we would use:
fdisk the pendrive, make it bootable, copy the contents, syslinux it and
edit some files. This is no image setup and that's where I'm looking
after.
Eric,
Ok.
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 10:54, Nathan Angelacos wrote:
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 13:40, Mike Noyes wrote:
I'm ok with it; although it should probably be combined with Eric's
suggestion of leaf/bin/config/webconf
That way a developer could also upload a binary lwp (or lrp, yes, there are
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 11:13, Mike Noyes wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 10:54, Nathan Angelacos wrote:
That way a developer could also upload a binary lwp (or lrp, yes, there are
webconf lrps)
Ah. I missed the bin/ in Eric's post. Not something that I'd have missed
before. :-(
How
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 12:03, Eric Spakman wrote:
Who is going to put the available lwp packages in leaf/bin/config/webconf?
Just a question.
Eric,
It depends on who we want to grant write access to in avail. Existing
binary lwp packages, already stored elsewhere in our repository, will
require
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 12:50, Nathan Angelacos wrote:
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 15:03, Eric Spakman wrote:
Who is going to put the available lwp packages in leaf/bin/config/webconf?
Just a question.
I can take care of the ones that are in my devel area. (That would be all of
them,
Am Mittwoch, 15. März 2006 16:29 schrieb Venki Iyer:
In any case, I did roll a 2.6-based version of Bering late last year
(started out as a project effort, turned into a labor of love - thanks
guys!), could probably push it back into one of the project trees if
there is any interest. I'm not
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 16:21, KP Kirchdoerfer wrote:
I'd like to ask, what's your experience using a 2.6 kernel compared to a 2.4
kernel for a router?
KP,
I think Tom Eastep might have a list of a few benefits of kernel 2.6
over 2.4 for firewalls. Ray and Charles may have some insights on the
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