Re: LOAF.... -- LINUX5250

"Jason M. Felice" wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 07:48:38PM -0400, Brian E. Seppanen wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Paul Rijke wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >
> > > I want to start Linux as LOAF (Linux Of A Flop). Suppose I want to put
> > > TN5250 on that disk as well, which files should I put on that disk? Of
> > > course the binairy tn5250, but wich ones as well?
> >
> > I don't think you can add to LOAF, but you might be interested in looking
> > at CCLinux.  It's also a floppy distribution which will allow you to trim
> > what comes on the floppy and write a new image to disk.  I tried working
> > on that as well.   What I figured was needed was the 5250 terminfo entry,
> > the executable, rungetty to spawn a 5250 process immediately.  ncurses or
> > a statically compiled binary.  As well as a suitable keyboard
> > definition.  the terminfo and keyboard file may create other
> > dependencies.  I haven't had an opportunity to work with it in a while,
> > couple that with a lack of a linux development machine to work
> > with.  You'd also need to script networking to work upon boot.
> >
> > Brian E. Seppanen             /|
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>
> If there are any takers on this project, please note that one of the things
> on my todo list is a simple (newt-based?) console program for a boot disk
> to configure networking.  This is for use by my work, but I could be convinced
> to bump it up a notch on the priority scale if someone wants to work on a
> 5250 bootdisk.  The requirements of said program are:
>

Look at www.ltsp.org where all of the technology for booting from
a network is already done and packaged for RedHat! And it is used
specifically in an environment where TN5250 is used. Floppy drives
are not that reliable for the long hall.

>
> 1) Look at /proc/pci and automagically find any PCI network cards.
> 2) Otherwise, let you select network driver.  Or let you select if there are
>    more than two cards.  Or some variation on that.
> 3) Select how to get an address -- dhcp, bootp, or static.  (Ask for static
>    if dhcp then bootp fail?)
> 4) Load network driver module.
> 5) Bring up the interface.  Exit status of program indicates success/failure.
>
> Why duplicate effort?
>
> And I have a 2.2 kernel config for bootdisks as well, if someone asks.  The
> default one for CClinux only has one network driver built in, mine has a lot
> of common drivers built as modules.
>
> -Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
>
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