[Imc-tech] Re: Need router info! (fwd)

[Zachary C.Miller]

> Subject: Re: Need router info!
> To: Paul Riismandel <p-riism at uiuc.edu>
> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 19:08:36 -0500 (CDT)
> CC: wolfgang at wolfgang.groogroo.com
> From: Zachary C. Miller <wolfgang at wolfgang.groogroo.com> 

> We need to configure a linux box. I can help walk you through the
> process. We should pick a time to meet to work on it. 
> 
> We will need at least a 486 with a 300MB harddrive, 16 MB of RAM, and
> 2 ethernet cards. To prep the box just completely format the
> harddrive.
> 
> Another prep task that you can do is to download all the base-*.bin
> and driver-*.bin and rescue.bin and root.bin images from this
> location:
> 
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/
> 
> Each of those *.bin files is a floppy disk image. 
> 
> Then also download the "rawrite2.exe" package from this location:
> 
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/dosutils/
> 
> There is documentation for rawrite. Read the documentation and use
> that to copy each of the *.bin files to its own disk. 
> 
> You will end up with 17 1.44MB floppy disks which you should label
> with the appropriate names of the images you installed on
> them. Technically we don't have to do this with floppy disks but I
> find that to be the easiest way even though it is a little slower. I
> used to have a set of boot floppies but I recycled them a while ago. 
> 
> If you could have those disks and the target computer ready for when
> we meet then we can sit down and do the whole linux install over the
> course of an afternoon. 
> 
> There are two stages to the linux install, the first stage is actually
> getting the OS on there which is pretty easy, its just a matter of
> booting off of the "rescue" disk and then following the prompts (but
> there is a lot of information that you may not know how to provide
> with out a little guidance from me). 
> 
> Then we will customize the kernel and configure the machine to act as
> a masquerade router. This part is more complex. We'll probably also
> want to configure the machine to act as a DHCP server to hand out IPs
> on the masquerade subnet.
> 
> I'd like to invite a bunch of techies to our "install party" so I can
> show lots of people at once how to do a linux install.
> 
> I will try to pass as much of the work as possible off to you guys but
> I know there is some core work that I will have to do myself this time
> around.
> 
> Good advance reading for our meeting is (don't worry if some of this
> is over your head or if there is too much to read, I just want you to
> have some basic orientation to what we are dealing with so that when I
> teach there will be some context):
> 
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/DHCP/index.htm
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html
> 
> If you really want to read a lot of stuff read these too (this stuff
> provides more background):
> 
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Installation-HOWTO/index.html
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Config-HOWTO.html
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO/index.htm
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html
> 
> I can meet anytime before 6pm on Sunday. Saturday and Friday are no
> good. Any evening next week will be ok.
> 

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