Re: [nwst-dev] (no subject)

[Matthew M. <m_...@bl...>]

Hi Enrique,

Please feel free to send these messages onto the forum.  I would be very
pleased if what we have discussed helps someone else.

I have changed all my settings as per your instructions .  However, when
booting the NS cannot find a file called nvram.mig.  Any ideas where this
is?  I am trying to get these working without using DHCP - if this fails
I'll start over again on a Windows 2003 machine instead of XP (can't work
out how to configure DHCP turbo!)

Last question for the moment.  When I finally get these to boot will
everything be in Spanish or is there a language selection screen?  (My
Spanish is not up to much I'm afraid!)

Thanks again,

Matt

P.S

I'll try using Knoppix on a different machine (I tried it on my own but i=
t
wouldn't let me mount my hard drive and uncompress the tar (it wanted to =
do
it in RAMdisk but as I don't have 1gb of RAM it kept locking up.... maybe=
,
as you suggest, it would work over an NFS share better).


----- Original Message -----
From: "Enrique Oca=F1a Gonz=E1lez" <eo...@ig...>
To: "Matthew Miles" <m_...@bl...>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [nwst-dev] (no subject)

El S=E1b 28 Ago 2004 12:35, escribi=F3:
> I've just found out that I can get into the NS setup utility by booting

the

> terminal without connecting the network cable.  When it tries to find a
> DHCP server press escape (it states booting cancelled by user) and it w=
ill
> boot into the setup utility.  The default password is 'password' withou=
t
> the speechmarks.  From here you can set up booting from NVRAM etc.

Yes, I know. In fact, you can change the password and some other settings
(even reflash the BIOS) using the original NetworkStation server software
written by IBM.

> Problem is that I have no idea what to enter into these settings!

This is our configuration...

Network Parameters:
 - IP: Network
 - DHCP: 1
 - BOOTP: Disabled
 - Ethernet Standard: Version 2

Set boot parameters:
 - Boot file: kernel.1000
 - TFTP boot directory:
 - NFS boot directory: /networkstationv2/prodbase/ppc/
 - Boot host protocol:
    TFTP order: Disabled
    NFS order: 1
    Local order: Disabled

Set configuration parameters:
 - Configuration file:
 - Configuration directory:
    First:
    Second:
 - Configuration host protocol:
    First: NFS
    Second: Default

Set monitor parameters:
 - Set monitor resolution: 1024x768@85Hz
 - Set monitor power management: Enabled

Set language parameters:
 - Select keyboard language: Spanish (in our particular case)
 - Select startup language: Spanish (in our particular case)

Set verbose diagnostic messages: Enabled

> Is there any chance that you could send me the files from the main tar
> after extraction (i.e sutiable for windows on a couple of CD's at my
> expense as I am having lots of problems extracting them myself!)

If you want, I can publish or send you a ZIP file containing all files.
Unfortunately, there is a BIG problem about doing this. A ZIP file, a TAR
file or whatever that is going to be uncompressed from Windows, will lose
the
ACL (Access Control List =3D permissions) and symbolic link information.

The ACL that each file has is very very important, because it determines =
the
file permissions when it is viewed from Linux through NFS. If the files h=
ave
a wrong owner or a wrong ACL, Linux will probably be unable to access the=
m.
This was the MAIN problem we had when trying to move from a
Linux-server-based configuration to a Windows-server-based one.

Moreover, standard Windows applications (zip and tar included) don't know
how
to deal with symbolic links. Symbolic links are something "emulated" in
Windows by Services For Unix.

For this reason we don't know any other method to uncompress and install
Corunix other than mounting the NFS export into a Linux machine and runni=
ng
there the TAR utility. As far as we know, only doing this we ensure that
permissions and symbolic links are restored properly in the Linux side, a=
nd
ACL, owner and "symbolic link emulation files" are restored properly in t=
he
Windows side.

If you know about some utility that can store (and restore) ACLs in a
reliable way, we'll happy to know about it and use it to made an archive =
for
you.

Try to get a laptop or another computer from a friend, boot it using Knop=
pix
or another live distribution, and do the installation steps that require
Linux. We don't know other method. :-(

See you.

P.S.: Would you mind if I send all the thread to the nwst-dev list? I thi=
nk
all these emails would be very interesting for the people subscribed to t=
he
list.

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Ingeniero en Inform=E1tica
Gesti=F3n de la Internet Municipal Educativa del Ayuntamiento de A Coru=F1=
a
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