[Trinux-talk] Re: How to load packages from a package server?

[P60 <akd...@ka...>]

Well, I have not tried the ftp-server, I use an http-server locally. Works
wonderfull.
My trinux boot floppy has the following in /tux/config/server:
http://192.168.0.254/

# http://www.trinux.org/pkg/

# http://www.io.com/~mdfranz/trinux/pkg/

and following in /tux/config/master, gateway and dns:
192.168.0.254
and following in /tux/config/local:
http://192.168.0.254/

and following in /tux/config/eth0:
192.168.0.2 255.255.255.0

This works for me.
I don't know if it's correct, but it works for me this way. I don't change
anything anymore in those files :-)
My local server (= 192.168.0.254)  has   /trinux/packages   as root.
I found this by trying, there is certainly a lack of documentation on this
matter :-( /tux/config/readme is scrambled btw, ! )
Trinux (=192.168.0.2) boots fast this way.
Additional packages are loaded AND installed with:
getpkg vi (without .tgz)
or just loaded with:
snarf http://192.168.0.254/vi.tgz

Then I found there's no full use of RAM possible in trinux, so I started
making changes in initrd. Not totally happy yet.
Now I (am learning to) build my own packages. Installed slackware7.1.
This is a good thing for understanding how linux works!

Hope it helps a litlle,
Arne

> Greetz all,
>
> I have the Trinux NET boot floppy 0.80rc2.  I've set up a package server
> with all of the trinux .tgz packages for the local net at
> ftp://10.0.0.2/trinux/pkg/ - the trinux boot floppy has the following in
> /tux/config/server:
>
> ftp://10.0.0.2/trinux/pkg/
> #http://www.trinux.org/pkg/
> #http://www.io.com/~mdfranz/trinux/pkg/
>
> After boot, I see the messages
>   The network was successfully configured
>   Contacting ftp://10.0.0.2/trinux/pkg/...
>   Retrieving base packages from ftp://10.0.0.2/trinux/pkg/
>   Retrieving ftp://10.0.0.2/trinux/pkg/term.tgz
>
>
> But the process takes forever.. around 5 minutes up to this point.  I
don't
> have DNS configured to include the new trinux server yet, but I don't see
> where that would have any effect on the package loading, etc.  This is a
> 100Mb network and 600 MHz systems with gobs of RAM. Oddly, the only
activity
> I see on the switch connecting these systems is an intermittant blink
every
> 2-3 seconds; no constant activity like what i'd expect. Why the slowness?
>
> Also, what is the command for retrieving additional packages after Trinux
> fully boots?
>
> I've tried accessing the packages by typing the following commands:
>
>  -getpkg
>  -getpkg ftp://10.0.0.2/trinux/pkg/vi.tgz
>  -snarf ftp://10.0.0.2/trinux/pkg/vi.tgz
>
> None of which retrieve the packages as i thought they would.
>
> Any guidance would be much appreciated.