[sisela] Boot option attempts...

Thu May 18 13:43:34 BST 2006

 OK,

		Many thanks to you ChrisS and Farmalar for answering...  I
tried going to the /floppy directory, running vi to create a boot.sh script,
put my networking commands in it (ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask
255.255.255.0 up), and typing :wq to exit.  I do an ls and see boot.sh there
in the floppy directory.  Now I do a sync as suggested, and reboot (using
the reboot command, not ctl+alt+del).  When sisela comes back up I go to the
/floppy directory and do an ls.  The directory is empty...  Any Ideas?  It
never really seemed to access the floppy when I did the sync.  If the
machine was able to read the floppy it should be able to write to it,
correct?

Thanks again!

	--ChrisM

BTW: Farmalar, your english is quite good.  Don't knock yourself! I
appreciate you even attempting it. :-)

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 15:15:21 +0100
From: "Chris Scott" <chrisjscott at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [sisela] Saving boot options
To: "discussion of the Sisela networking boot disk" <sisela at earth.li>
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Hi

Did you run "sync" to actually write the file to the floppy?  IIRC you can
put BusyBox shell commands into boot.sh on the floppy and it will then
execute them on boot.

It's been a while since I've run Sisela but if you need better help I could
fire it up and have a look.  This list is probably your best shot for
support.

Cheers

Chris

On 15/05/06, Christopher T. Mooney <chris.mooney at kelleylog.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>         I am just getting started with Sisela, and am a mite confused 
> about how to save commands to be run on system startup.  Sisela tells 
> me that if I save a file in the /floppy directory called 
> boot.<something> (I can't remember quite what the filename is, and I 
> don't have the machine I am testing out Sisela on here at work), then 
> Sisela will run those commands upon startup.  I tried doing this, but 
> after re-boot, the file was gone!  Of course this seemed obvious to me 
> when I remembered that the root filesystem is a bz2 image, I just 
> thought that perhaps sisela would save the boot command file back to 
> the compressed image file on shutdown.  Is there a way to force sisela 
> to do this?  Or do I need to build sisela from the sources or just 
> create my own filesystem image to load on the boot floppy?  Any help I 
> can get here would be most appreciated.  I think Sisela is ultimately cool
and am really looking forward to using it!
>
>         Thanks!
>
>                 Chris
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 07:57:13 -0300
From: "Farmalar" <farmalar at terra.com.br>
Subject: Re: [sisela] Saving boot options
To: "discussion of the Sisela networking boot disk" <sisela at earth.li>
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Hello friend!
I4m not  expert on linux and I don4t  speak English very well too, but I
will tray to explain to you.Ok?
You just need to create a fille in the floppy directory:
        vi boot.sh
In my case, I put inside it :
        ifconfig eth0 up
        ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
        and more

I hope , I could help you and....
sorry for my bad English....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher T. Mooney" <chris.mooney at kelleylog.com>
To: <sisela at earth.li>
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 9:49 AM
Subject: [sisela] Saving boot options

> Hello,
>
> I am just getting started with Sisela, and am a mite confused about 
> how to save commands to be run on system startup.  Sisela tells me 
> that if
I
> save a file in the /floppy directory called boot.<something> (I can't 
> remember quite what the filename is, and I don't have the machine I am 
> testing out Sisela on here at work), then Sisela will run those 
> commands upon startup.  I tried doing this, but after re-boot, the file
was gone!
Of
> course this seemed obvious to me when I remembered that the root
filesystem
> is a bz2 image, I just thought that perhaps sisela would save the boot 
> command file back to the compressed image file on shutdown.  Is there 
> a
way
> to force sisela to do this?  Or do I need to build sisela from the 
> sources or just create my own filesystem image to load on the boot 
> floppy?  Any
help
> I can get here would be most appreciated.  I think Sisela is 
> ultimately
cool
> and am really looking forward to using it!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chris
>
> /**
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>  * Senior Software Engineer
>  * Kelley's Logistics Support Systems
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>  * <mailto:chris.mooney at kelleylog.com>
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