[Trinux-talk] Re: Can't download programs (Ben Boomsma)

[yuval l. <yuv...@ya...>]

Ben,

Two potential solution to your problems. I experienced
similar ones when I started researching Trinux 5 days
ago. The first one is quick, the second one is more
reliable.

I assume you have an internal LAN connected to the
internet through a gateway (cable/ADSL modem or other
LAN/WAN connection).

If you share the internet connection over the Windows
internet connection sharing, you probably want to go
straight to the second solution.

quick solution:

on your trinux-net boot floppy, in the tux folder,
edit/create the following files:
- server
- dns
- gateway
- eth0

server
- put on top the url
   http://trinux.sourceforge.net/pkg/
- remove the trinux.org URL (does not work)

dns
- the ip address of your dns server (you can find it
in WinME by running WINIPCFG)

gateway
- the ip address of your gateway

eth0
- the ip address you assigned to the machine and its
netmask (example: 192.168.1.101 255.255.255.0)

be connected to the internet when booting, good lick.

Reliable Solution: Install a server on your WinME
(Might Explode?) and get the packages from it.

1. download the Win32 Apache Distribution (I use the
1.3.x as I have not had time to test the 2.0.x yet) 
http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/

2. install it on WinME (it works on Win 2K and I used
it on Win98 as well)

3. download the trinux packages you need from one of
the  repositories to a folder within the DocumentRoot
of Apache on your WinME.
http://trinux.sourceforge.net/pkg/
http://www.io.com/~mdfranz/trinux/pkg/

4. assuming that your WinME IP is 192.168.1.100 and
the  folder's name is trinux-pkg, add the following
line on top of the server file
http://192.168.1.100/trinux-pkg/

5. make sure Apache is up and running before starting
trinux.

Advantages of this solution:
1) speed
2) economical on the limited bandwidth ressources of
the download sites
3) complete predictability of the boot process

I do not know if the file local (also in the tux
folder) has also a meaning. I left it unchanged.

Good Luck
Yuv

> Message: 2
> From: "Ben Boomsma" <ben...@ho...>
> To: tri...@li...
> Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 16:40:31 +0000
> Subject: [Trinux-talk] Re: Can't download programs
> 
> I've setup the settings for my network in trinux
> now. I can ping my other 
> comuter that is connected to the internet, but still
> can't download 
> programs. The most importand now is that I can test
> the computer that is 
> connected to the internet, but Trinux doesn't see
> the trinux directory on 
> C:\ that I have created now, and I'm not asked for a
> floppy where the 
> programs are on also, so I can not test it.
> 
> Does someone know how I can load the programs? And
> is there a way to 
> download the programs? The computer connected to the
> internet has windows ME 
> on it.
> 
> Thank you for the help.
> 
> Ben Boomsma


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