Re: [Trinux-talk] Trinux as DR NS

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

> 
> I'm looking at using Trinux as a Disaster Recovery OS for our offsite DR
> testing, however, what I've been unable to do is find out if and how one
> disables IDE/NET loading of additional packages.  What I want is to be able
> to pull out two floppy disks, pop it into a system at our off site facility
> and bring up my name server.  
> 
> The system boots up, sees the NIC and assigns it the IP address/hostname
> that I need it to, but immediately tries to load packages from the network
> instead of asking me for additional floppies.  

I've fixed the linuxrc. There is an initrd.gz in
http://www.io.com/~mdfranz/trinux/initrd/ that you can copy to a boot
floppy.

Basically you can override network package loading two different ways:

1) type floppy and the syslinux boot: prompt
2) create a file called \tux\options\floppy on the trinux boot floppy

CD-ROM support is also coming along (finally) so you many want to consider
that as well: boots faster and is a more reliable media.

-mdf

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Matthew Franz        mf...@ci...
Security Research Engineer
Security Technologies Assessment Team