[FADCA] Re: FPAC on KNOPPIX_AFU

[Chuck Hast]

On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 19:56:44 +0100, Bernard Pidoux
<pidoux at ccr.jussieu.fr> wrote:
> Chuck Hast wrote:
> >
> >
> > Bernard, this is very good. We can now start testing with 2.6 kernels. Right
> > now we are using Knoppix_AFU to set the base ax25 up as it sort of holds
> > one's hand through the process. That is a 2.4 Kernel and so far at least on
> > my machine we have had no trouble with binaries I pulled of the FPAC
> > floppy.
> >
> > But I had tried to get it to run under 2.6 and it would not. This should take
> > care of that.
> >
> 
> I have been told about FeatherLinux, based on KNOPPIX (see Google), that
> stands on a floppy or on a bootable 64 Mb USB key !
> I did not succeed up to now to make it bootable, but I will be helped
> soon by a friend who did it on a number of USB keys.
> I would like to play with FeatherLinux and see if I could add it some AX25.
> 
> Stay tuned.

OK, just looked at it, something like Damn Small Linux, but desiged to boot from
CF type devices (card or USB key)

Seems that Knoppix is the distro that is getting a lot of different
modifications to.

I have tried CF cards here and they work quite well, the trick is to
boot from the
CF card to a RAMdisk so that all of the accesses are to the ram disk. Only do
some very few writes to the actual CF so as not to write to it too many times.

Jean-Paul, Very Merry Holidays to you and yours, we will not send anymore
to the address you gave, no need for duplicates.

Bernard, there are others who are working on different parts of Linux here in
FL, they are all on the FADCA reflector which I have copied on this, perhaps
they will also join the FAPC Linux reflector so that we can have more people
working on this. Each can take a piece and we multi-process it.

We need to come up with something that will run, like the floppy, the best thing
would be a set of installation files that would prompt the switchop
for the target
device (HD, CF/USB_KEY or other media) and install the ax25 stuff like Knoppix
presently does, then it would install FPAC.

We presently have a program called netmanager, we use it to build the routing
tables for our ROSE and DOS FPAC network, it not only builds the routing tables
for the network it also creates a map. I think that there is one
fellow who is looking
at either a translator that will convert FPAC DOS routing tables to
FPAC Linux or
a new program that creates the whole fpac.conf file.

I hope we can get all of this going so as to have some new tools to go
with network
administration, that will make it easier yet.

One thing I have admired on the Flex stuff is that it does self
building of the network
once the adjacent nodes are identified to the new node. It would be
interesting to
do something similar with FPAC, i.e. you set up a fpac switch, you
tell it who the
adjacent devices are, when it connects to them it gets the routing
table info and
builds it's own routing tables. Also as the network changes it could
re-configure
routing tables. I still believe that the X.121 addressing is much
better than routing
on callsigns, and of IP will have the same sort of atributes, but does
better riding
inside of other protocols. 

-- 
Chuck Hast 
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."