trinux-talk

RE: [Trinux-talk] Running Trinux from a hard disk

[Henk v. A. <he...@lx...>]

Dear all,

I'm also working on running Trinux from a harddisk.

In my case, I'm using a small partition which boots SYSLINUX, similar to the
way that Trinux is booted from a floppy disk.

On this partition, I have stored a number of floppy disk images, so I can
boot virtually any Operating System from any bootfloppy, which is much
faster then booting from a physical floppy drive.

One of the problems I saw is that the original linuxrc in the initrd.gz does
not recognize this situation.

I have added the following lines to the original linuxrc of Matthew Franz in
the 'Special Probing stuff' Section, and then it worked.

Matthew, is this something to add permanently in the linuxrc ?  

Regards,   Henk

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

######################################################################
### Special Probing stuff
######################################################################

### HvA, 20031201: check for boot harddisk with syslinux
echo "Checking all vfat partitions for ldlinux.sys (syslinux)"

for i in `cat /etc/proc/fixed 2> /dev/null`
do
	if mount -o ro -t vfat /dev/${i} /mnt 2> /dev/null
	then
		echo -n "VFAT found on $i"
		if ls /mnt/ldlinux.sys 2> /dev/null
		then
			echo -n " found ldlinux.sys (syslinux)"
			if [ -d /mnt/trinux ]
			then
				echo " found trinux"
				BOOT="/dev/${i}"
				BOOTFS="vfat"
				echo "BOOT=$BOOT"
				echo "$i" > /etc/proc/fixedpkg
				SYSLINUX="true"
				cd /
				umount /mnt 2> /dev/null
				break
			fi		
		fi
		
	fi
	umount /mnt 2> /dev/null
done

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Henk van Asselt



-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Franz [mailto:mf...@ci...] 
Sent: Thursday, 18 December, 2003 5:09 PM
To: Brian Ford
Cc: tri...@li...
Subject: Re: [Trinux-talk] Running Trinux from a hard disk

On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:23:26AM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
>  
> List;
>  
> Is anyone out there running Trinux from a hard drive?  I have a Pentium
> MMX PC with 192 MB of RAM that I am looking to use for pen test.  I can
> run Trinux on it from the CD but have been unable to get it to boot from
> the hard disk.  Any suggestions?
>  

Section 1.4 in http://trinux.sourceforge.net/docs.txt should get you
started. It
requires booting with MS-DOS (or FreeDOS for purists) with loadlin.exe

See http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/trinux/fdos-util-0.1?download

- mdf




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Re: [Trinux-talk] Running Trinux from a hard disk

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

Very nice patches, I'll add them to the linuxrc and to the
documentation. Sounds like I also need to do a new release, particularly
in light of all the do_brk() nonsense. Hopefully over the holidays...

- mdf


> Dear all,
> 
> I'm also working on running Trinux from a harddisk.
> 
> In my case, I'm using a small partition which boots SYSLINUX, similar to the
> way that Trinux is booted from a floppy disk.
> 
> On this partition, I have stored a number of floppy disk images, so I can
> boot virtually any Operating System from any bootfloppy, which is much
> faster then booting from a physical floppy drive.
> 
> One of the problems I saw is that the original linuxrc in the initrd.gz does
> not recognize this situation.
> 
> I have added the following lines to the original linuxrc of Matthew Franz in
> the 'Special Probing stuff' Section, and then it worked.
> 
> Matthew, is this something to add permanently in the linuxrc ?  
> 
> Regards,   Henk
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
> ######################################################################
> ### Special Probing stuff
> ######################################################################
> 
> ### HvA, 20031201: check for boot harddisk with syslinux
> echo "Checking all vfat partitions for ldlinux.sys (syslinux)"
> 
> for i in `cat /etc/proc/fixed 2> /dev/null`
> do
> 	if mount -o ro -t vfat /dev/${i} /mnt 2> /dev/null
> 	then
> 		echo -n "VFAT found on $i"
> 		if ls /mnt/ldlinux.sys 2> /dev/null
> 		then
> 			echo -n " found ldlinux.sys (syslinux)"
> 			if [ -d /mnt/trinux ]
> 			then
> 				echo " found trinux"
> 				BOOT="/dev/${i}"
> 				BOOTFS="vfat"
> 				echo "BOOT=$BOOT"
> 				echo "$i" > /etc/proc/fixedpkg
> 				SYSLINUX="true"
> 				cd /
> 				umount /mnt 2> /dev/null
> 				break
> 			fi		
> 		fi
> 		
> 	fi
> 	umount /mnt 2> /dev/null
> done
> 
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> 
> 
> Henk van Asselt
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Franz [mailto:mf...@ci...] 
> Sent: Thursday, 18 December, 2003 5:09 PM
> To: Brian Ford
> Cc: tri...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Trinux-talk] Running Trinux from a hard disk
> 
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:23:26AM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
> >  
> > List;
> >  
> > Is anyone out there running Trinux from a hard drive?  I have a Pentium
> > MMX PC with 192 MB of RAM that I am looking to use for pen test.  I can
> > run Trinux on it from the CD but have been unable to get it to boot from
> > the hard disk.  Any suggestions?
> >  
> 
> Section 1.4 in http://trinux.sourceforge.net/docs.txt should get you
> started. It
> requires booting with MS-DOS (or FreeDOS for purists) with loadlin.exe
> 
> See http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/trinux/fdos-util-0.1?download
> 
> - mdf
> 
> 
> 
> 
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