[FADCA] What next?

[Charles S Schuman]

Ed,
Well... we have the basics of a Packet Server running.
We have Telpac, Fpac and FBB BBS. Not much you can do to enhance
the Telpac bridge, so I guess we move on to the BBS or the FPAC node.

Have you done any reading on FPAC? There is a Port-a-let full of 
potential there! Are there any BBSes accessible from your location and 
what digies or ROSE switches do you have for neighbors? Your Heard list 
filled up rather quickly so I'm guessing that you have a fairly rich rf 
environment. I'll be taking a look @ your Netmgr files later today.

Two tools that you want to have in your Windows toolbox.. PuTTY, a 
Telnet/SSH term pgm, and WinSCP, a secure file transfer pgm. Google them 
up and snag a copy at your first convenience.

I uploaded knxhdremaster yesterday. You will find it in /home/.
That is the script that we use to clone our systems. I'll attach the
instruction sheet with this e-mail.

<<Charlie>>
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Hello to ALL,
There's new version of the script, which was renamed to knxhdremaster_en-1.2.sh. 
It's available for download at 
http://ww.ngsys.eti.br/remasters/knxhdremaster_en-1.4.sh.

The script works well provided you have at least 1GB of combined RAM+SWAP. 
That means if you have, 256MB of RAM you'll need approx. 750MB of 
space on the SWAP partition (or a SWAP file). And, as far as I know, 
this is the minimum requirement for remastering from the CD with a 
chrooted environment too.

This script allows you to install the remastered copy to hd via an icon on the Desktop
 called hd install. You would prefer clicking on this icon to install the system to hd
 instead of the traditional method of opening a terminal and calling the knoppix-installer,
 since the script associated with the icon will fisrtly delete the S00knoppix-autoconfig
 link from /etc/rcS.d (which was causing double checking and, consequently, taking
 longer to complete), the 45xsession script from /etc/X11/Xsession.d, which is useless
 after hd installation and the hd install icon itself. After this the script calls the
 knoppix-installer script.

All the previous recomendations (which I reproduce here) still stand:

1 - download the script and put it wherever you want (I put it on the /usr/local/sbin
 folder).

2 - Set its permissions and ownership:
 chmod +x /where_you_put_it/knxhdremaster_en-1.2.sh
 chown root.root /where_you_put_it/knxhdremaster_en-1.2.sh.

3 - You can run it via, konsole as a regular user (not root,su, or sudo). 
The script may ask you the root password. Enter it for proceeding. 
Alternately, you would set it on the menu, via kmenuedit, and call it with: 
konsole -e /where_you_put_it/knxhdremaster_en-1.2.sh.

4 - Answer the few questions the script asks you and go for it! 
After some minutes you'll have a perfect copy of your custom box already burned to a 
cd..

Remarks 1 - At the very first time you use it the script will ask you to insert the 
original knoppix cd.

Remarks 2 - Although this script also remasters the kanotix 2005-02 distro, this 
remastering comes with a bug which prevents you from logging into the system, after 
installed it to HD. 
The remaster process itself is smooth, the ISO burned to a CD runs perfectly, but this bug 
appears after you install the remastered copy to hd and try to login. 
I'm still investigating this behavior and if someone would like 
trying to find out what is causing this I would appreciate a lot. 

So, use it with knoppix 3.7 and 3.8 and you won't have any trouble with it.

Cheers.