I am trying to provide a livecd for emergency use by colleagues and family on the soho servers (Fedora 10) I am responsible for.
Revisor provides the opportunity to set up eth0 eth1 etc (with fixed ip addresses providing lan access) and firewall (I am still working on NAT setup)
However in both scenarios ppp0 would have to be configured with username and password to bring up xdsl internet connection.
I cannot rely on any user expertise beyond restarting the server and/or booting from the livecd. Has anyone on the list any ideas about solutions, strategies, gotchas?
Thanks for any help.
Peter
Peter Malcolm Croft Price wrote:
However in both scenarios ppp0 would have to be configured with username and password to bring up xdsl internet connection.
I cannot rely on any user expertise beyond restarting the server and/or booting from the livecd. Has anyone on the list any ideas about solutions, strategies, gotchas?
unionfs i think it was that allowed you to overmount a filesystem on another. So you could mount the rescue filesystem, with the real system config dirs overlaid... Never tried that, don't know if fedora supports it.
DaveT.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:33 PM, David Timms dtimms@iinet.net.au wrote:
Peter Malcolm Croft Price wrote:
However in both scenarios ppp0 would have to be configured with username and password to bring up xdsl internet connection.
I cannot rely on any user expertise beyond restarting the server and/or booting from the livecd. Has anyone on the list any ideas about solutions, strategies, gotchas?
unionfs i think it was that allowed you to overmount a filesystem on another. So you could mount the rescue filesystem, with the real system config dirs overlaid... Never tried that, don't know if fedora supports it.
DaveT.
Thanks Dave that has at least set me thinking and looking at the various livecd and and kickstart possibilities. I suppose what I want is to find how I can duplicate the Knoppix livecd ability to save settings, with Fedora 10. Making sure to remove liveinstall of course. Little fingers get everywhere :o)
Peter
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Peter Malcolm Croft Price petermcprice@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:33 PM, David Timms dtimms@iinet.net.au wrote:
Peter Malcolm Croft Price wrote:
However in both scenarios ppp0 would have to be configured with username and password to bring up xdsl internet connection.
I cannot rely on any user expertise beyond restarting the server and/or booting from the livecd. Has anyone on the list any ideas about solutions, strategies, gotchas?
unionfs i think it was that allowed you to overmount a filesystem on another. So you could mount the rescue filesystem, with the real system config dirs overlaid... Never tried that, don't know if fedora supports it.
DaveT.
Thanks Dave that has at least set me thinking and looking at the various livecd and and kickstart possibilities. I suppose what I want is to find how I can duplicate the Knoppix livecd ability to save settings, with Fedora 10. Making sure to remove liveinstall of course. Little fingers get everywhere :o)
Peter
Use a flash drive instead of a CD.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Peter Malcolm Croft Price petermcprice@gmail.com wrote:
I am trying to provide a livecd for emergency use by colleagues and family on the soho servers (Fedora 10) I am responsible for.
Revisor provides the opportunity to set up eth0 eth1 etc (with fixed ip addresses providing lan access) and firewall (I am still working on NAT setup)
However in both scenarios ppp0 would have to be configured with username and password to bring up xdsl internet connection.
I cannot rely on any user expertise beyond restarting the server and/or booting from the livecd. Has anyone on the list any ideas about solutions, strategies, gotchas?
Thanks for any help.
Peter
Some progress made with http://www.linux-live.org/ Peter
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