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| 04:40.33 | mharris | I've got a PXE server running successfully in CentOS 5.4 and working functionally for installing Linux. I'm not trying to add Windows XP to the mix so I can install it over the LAN as well, but this is proving to be much more complex than I had anticipated. ;o) |
| 04:41.53 | mharris | I've read a few HOWTOs that seemed promising (via Google) but did not work out. Found a new HOWTO I haven't yet tried, but planning on giving it a whirl tomorrow: http://www.promodus.net/linuxris |
| 04:42.56 | mharris | Not looking for any handholding or step by step instructions in IRC, but if anyone has a pointer to a known good working tutorial/HOWTO that is likely to work for sure for doing Windows network installs from a Linux PXE server, I'd appreciate any pointers. |
| 04:44.09 | mharris | Also, if I can't find anything that is truly functional out there, I plan on figuring it out the good old fashioned way and writing up my own guide to save others the pain. :) |
| 08:39.36 | |Sereal| | yeah |
| 08:39.41 | |Sereal| | that one is probably the easiest to follow |
| 08:39.48 | |Sereal| | however, i would like to add something |
| 08:39.54 | |Sereal| | mharris: (just a highlight :P) |
| 08:40.57 | |Sereal| | instead of all the uppercase and lowercase stuff they use in the remap file. i suggest you use ciopfs |
| 08:40.58 | |Sereal| | http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/ciopfs/ |
| 08:41.38 | |Sereal| | saves all the effort of finding out which files need other types of casing, which makes it in turn easier to keep adding things like driverpacks.net or updates :) |
| 08:53.46 | |Sereal| | i believe thats was withing the obligationary 8 hours of waiting time for an answer :P |
| 08:56.30 | mharris | |Sereal|: thanks, I'll check that out for sure |
| 08:57.49 | mharris | Just doing a PXE install of CentOS5 to a box with only 112MB of RAM and figured it would explode but the installer detects low RAM and adds swap... so I'm in for a long install.. ;o) Glad that it works though, that's the important thing. :) |
| 08:59.01 | mharris | Been a long day now though, time for bed. ;o) Going to take a stab at the Windows stuff again tomorrow when I'm able to remember my name. :) |
| 09:06.59 | |Sereal| | 112? O_o |
| 09:07.00 | |Sereal| | damn |
| 09:07.13 | |Sereal| | i usually throw 2GB in and then wonder if its enough (never bothered to check :P) |
| 09:11.06 | mharris | yeah, 128MB of RAM but only 112 usable |
| 09:11.38 | Nirkus | mharris: some embedded box? |
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| 09:11.48 | mharris | It's a rather old laptop prototype in a tower case. I hate throwing out hardware when I can give it a new purpose and make it run until the capacitors leak. :) |
| 09:12.10 | mharris | First generation Pentium M |
| 09:12.16 | Nirkus | hehe |
| 09:12.25 | mharris | Just perfect for a nice little router :) |
| 09:12.31 | |Sereal| | heh |
| 09:12.42 | |Sereal| | do you want to keep it running 24/7? |
| 09:12.51 | mharris | yep |
| 09:12.59 | Nirkus | as long as you dont expect a performance boosted GUI workstation on that thing, just because you installed linux.. :> |
| 09:13.04 | |Sereal| | then id suggest buying something newer :P |
| 09:13.05 | Nirkus | ah ok |
| 09:13.35 | Nirkus | mharris: for private routing, 128MByte should be enough |
| 09:13.36 | mharris | Naw, absolute minimal install, no GUI, heavily locked down, etc. |
| 09:13.50 | Nirkus | for bigger connection tracking tables, you should install MORE |
| 09:13.52 | mharris | Just for small home LAN |
| 09:14.15 | Nirkus | k |
| 09:14.25 | mharris | I used to use a 486 a few years back until the 10base2 NIC blew up |
| 09:14.41 | Nirkus | hihi |
| 09:14.49 | mharris | Then moved it to a dual 1Ghz P3 Xeon with a gig of RAM which is what the current router is |
| 09:15.17 | Nirkus | but you want less energy consumption? |
| 09:15.22 | mharris | Trying to reorganize all the machines to their best use to reallocate ones that are kind of being wasted - to better use ;) |
| 09:15.42 | Nirkus | ah, k |
| 09:15.46 | mharris | Lower energy consumption would be nice too, I'll probably lower the clock freq with cpufreq or whatnot |
| 09:15.47 | Nirkus | has to hit the shower now |
| 09:16.43 | Nirkus | mharris: for lower energy consumption your prototype hardware has to support voltage scaling/stepping or whatever it's called |
| 09:17.12 | Nirkus | just lowering the frequency wont matter, your board needs to lower the cpus voltage as well |
| 09:17.23 | Nirkus | but with a pentium m, this could work |
| 09:18.14 | mharris | Nirkus: yeah, not sure what it's capable of, will have to snoop through docs and CMOS. It has a billion settings in there, many development/testing related. |
| 09:19.17 | mharris | I used to use it as a development box for testing/working on the Intel video drivers back when I was at RH, but the box never worked well for desktop use so it sat in a corner for ages. Voila - nice new router. ;) |
| 09:19.49 | mharris | Going to see if I can reduce power and noise by using a USB stick instead of a hard disk later on too. |
| 09:20.21 | |Sereal| | 128MB should suffice for a router |
| 09:20.22 | mharris | alternatively, I could even just use PXE for that too I suppose |
| 09:20.36 | |Sereal| | but really, when you run pxe on it (and the tools to run windows from the pxe) |
| 09:20.38 | |Sereal| | :X |
| 09:20.54 | mharris | yeah, 8MB used to work fine for my router when the 486 still was alive |
| 09:21.09 | |Sereal| | and then of course samba, |
| 09:21.10 | mharris | It will handle DHCP, but the PXE stuff is on a different box |
| 09:21.16 | |Sereal| | oooh ok |
| 09:21.32 | |Sereal| | even then id simply suggest buying a linux based router, if only for power consumption =p |
| 09:22.39 | mharris | I've got a Linksys WRT54G but don't care for the limitations it has. Considered using replacement firmware but it's a 1st gen box so not too high in the CPU perf department. :) |
| 09:22.57 | mharris | wireless, crypto and IPv6 support would probably make it choke |
| 09:23.44 | mharris | I figured I'd probably by one of those micro/nano-ITX systems down the line, but use the scrap hardware for now. |
| 09:26.34 | |Sereal| | i have a buffalo asus and a wrt54GL with alternative firmware |
| 09:26.46 | |Sereal| | and two 610N's with hopefully soon alternative firmware :P |
| 09:27.13 | |Sereal| | but the buffalo and the GL are already fast enough for virtually all home uses i can think of, cheap to buy. and a lot cheaper to use than a laptop |
| 09:36.18 | mharris | I'd probably get by mostly with one of those blackbox routers, but I'm a bit of a power user and tinker with a lot of stuff so I'd likely hit some limit and grumble ;) |
| 09:36.56 | mharris | In particular with IPv6, which should start to see some movement over the next few years. |
| 09:43.51 | |Sereal| | works perfect at home :P |
| 09:43.58 | |Sereal| | advantage of tomato / dd-wrt you CAN tinker ;) |
| 09:44.16 | |Sereal| | my apt keeps saying symbol lookup error |
| 09:44.19 | |Sereal| | no matter what i do |
| 09:44.27 | |Sereal| | and google offers little usefull help |
| 09:44.29 | |Sereal| | >_< |
| 09:47.20 | mharris | If memory serves correct, one of the recommendations for replacing the firmware on those beasts was to have a tftp server set up so you could restore the firmware if you bricked it. |
| 09:47.44 | mharris | Now that I have a working tftp/pxe setup, I just might give that a whirl too :) |
| 09:48.13 | |Sereal| | heh |
| 09:48.24 | |Sereal| | the buffalo and asus were flashed simply by executing a batch file |
| 09:48.28 | |Sereal| | the linksys i dont remember |
| 09:51.37 | mharris | IIRC, there is some flag you have to set on the thing to have it look for a tftp server when it boots up, which can be used to restore the old firmware |
| 09:52.05 | mharris | and if you don't set it, and fry the firmware, you brick it... or something like that. Been many years since I looked at it. |
| 09:52.35 | |Sereal| | aaah |
| 09:52.35 | |Sereal| | heh |
| 09:52.41 | |Sereal| | i never worried about that so i dont know |
| 09:52.52 | |Sereal| | i do know if you brick it you can hook it up to a serial port and reflash it |
| 09:53.06 | |Sereal| | so i figured if i bricked it itd be a nice chance to play around with a soldering kit :P |
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| 12:19.22 | |Sereal| | O_o |
| 12:46.17 | Nirkus | |Sereal|: try aptitude |
| 14:01.04 | |Sereal| | wouldnt have worked |
| 14:01.07 | |Sereal| | the hdd broke down heh |
| 14:01.25 | |Sereal| | just threw a new hdd in and reinstalled it. (this project is plagued by misfortune...) |
| 14:01.44 | |Sereal| | reinstalled the server, lucky enough i was in the process of making a batch file to simplify the installation |
| 14:01.55 | |Sereal| | i did change the servers name to fortuna though :P |
| 14:08.31 | |Sereal| | or would that be a bash file |
| 14:08.33 | |Sereal| | hmm |
| 14:19.31 | Nirkus | :D |
| 14:20.52 | Nirkus | if your scripting with bash in your batch file, one would call it a bash script or jst shell script |
| 14:20.55 | Nirkus | :) |
| 14:54.32 | |Sereal| | ive never been one to remember that sort of stuff =p |
| 14:57.59 | Nirkus | bash is a UNIX shell |
| 14:58.21 | Nirkus | a script for an arbitrary shell is called a shell script |
| 14:58.33 | Nirkus | a script for the bash is called bash script |
| 14:58.45 | Nirkus | but its not important to you anyway |
| 14:58.45 | Nirkus | :) |
| 16:25.31 | |Sereal| | not very |
| 16:25.43 | |Sereal| | i usually remember what i have to do more than what its exact names are :P |
| 17:06.42 | Nirkus | hehe |
| 20:06.30 | |Sereal| | time to celebrate my weekend |
| 20:06.31 | |Sereal| | i guess ill be back monday unless i happen to continue at home and have a question =p |
| 20:06.33 | |Sereal| | altough until now all my questions have been rather futile heh. |