Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-28 Thread Janne Johansson
Frothingdog.ca wrote: I really didn't realize how much this pushes everyones buttons. I thought OBSD was OBSD not matter where you go with it. "I just replaced the kernel with netbsd, the userland with freebsd and try to start linux apps under emulation, but this is still OpenBSD so you will

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-27 Thread Frothingdog.ca
Yes I understand, hence my last post. J.C. Roberts-3 wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:53:16 -0700 (PDT) "Frothingdog.ca" > wrote: > >> Wow pretty sad when people have nothing better to do then bash on >> someone who is just trying to learn the ropes. I full install to >> flash is next on t

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-27 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:53:16 -0700 (PDT) "Frothingdog.ca" wrote: > Wow pretty sad when people have nothing better to do then bash on > someone who is just trying to learn the ropes. I full install to > flash is next on the todo list, I wanted to figure this out because > this is what was used 3

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-26 Thread Frothingdog.ca
I really didn't realize how much this pushes everyones buttons. I thought OBSD was OBSD not matter where you go with it. I thought these questions would be fairly easy to deal with on a forum. But perhaps that's the problem. I'm putting myself into a situation where I need to ask for answers th

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-26 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:53:16 -0700 (PDT), Frothingdog.ca wrote: >Wow pretty sad when people have nothing better to do then bash on someone who >is just trying to learn the ropes. I full install to flash is next on the >todo list, I wanted to figure this out because this is what was used 3+ >year

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-26 Thread bofh
Everybody's young once. 15 years ago I impressed the hell out of my by putting dos/netware3/netware4/linux/windows3.1/win95/nt4/openbsd/solaris on one box - or some combo of the above (didn't have time for plan9). Then, I went - wtf? And spend my time working on kernel options. Then I went wtf

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-26 Thread Frothingdog.ca
Wow pretty sad when people have nothing better to do then bash on someone who is just trying to learn the ropes. I full install to flash is next on the todo list, I wanted to figure this out because this is what was used 3+ years ago by the guy who set it up for us, I'm just trying to understand

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-26 Thread Frothingdog.ca
Wow pretty sad when people have nothing better to do then bash on someone who is just trying to learn the ropes. I full install to flash is next on the todo list, I wanted to figure this out because this is what was used 3+ years ago by the guy who set it up for us, I'm just trying to understand

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-26 Thread Nick Holland
Robert wrote: > On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:26:50 -0700 (PDT) > "Frothingdog.ca" wrote: > >> Ran into another small snag. >> >> Working on installing netstat, I did the exact same thing I did with >> MTR however it still doesn't work. >> >> Gives me a /dev/drum error. And I can't seem to copy that

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-26 Thread Robert
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:26:50 -0700 (PDT) "Frothingdog.ca" wrote: > Ran into another small snag. > > Working on installing netstat, I did the exact same thing I did with > MTR however it still doesn't work. > > Gives me a /dev/drum error. And I can't seem to copy that drum file > into the imag

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-26 Thread Frothingdog.ca
Ran into another small snag. Working on installing netstat, I did the exact same thing I did with MTR however it still doesn't work. Gives me a /dev/drum error. And I can't seem to copy that drum file into the image. Any thoughts? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/SOEKRI

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-25 Thread Frothingdog.ca
Ok..Here's an update on the progress. 1. I installed MTR on my OBSD machine 2. Located the MTR file on the system located at /usr/local/sbin 3. within that directory I ran: # ldd mtr Which gave the following output: StartEnd Type Open Ref GrpRef Name 1c00 3c1b3000 exe 10 0

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-25 Thread Luis F Urrea
> the key is not to have coffee (or anything that is claimed to be > coffee) in mouth when reading these ridiculous statements > Not going to argue with that of course, correctness is what matters here not friendliness. And someone who runs an ISP definitely knows better than a newbie. Trying to

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-25 Thread Emilio Perea
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 01:12:52AM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: > the key is not to have coffee (or anything that is claimed to be > coffee) in mouth when reading these ridiculous statements Black "coffee" is not too bad, but Coca Cola Classic makes a really sticky mess in your laptop. Tip: if yo

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-25 Thread Henning Brauer
* Luis F Urrea [2009-03-24 16:41]: > 2009/3/24 Henning Brauer : > > > fortunately denmark has (basically) no coffee, otherwise i would have > > > needed a new x40 keyboard. good laugh. > > > > > > what next, I wear no underwear for security reasons? > > > > Shit, I drink like 4 cups of coffee a da

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-24 Thread Luis F Urrea
2009/3/24 Henning Brauer : > > fortunately denmark has (basically) no coffee, otherwise i would have > > needed a new x40 keyboard. good laugh. > > > > what next, I wear no underwear for security reasons? > > Shit, I drink like 4 cups of coffee a day! ...thx god these run without keyboards :)

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-24 Thread ropers
> * Luis F Urrea [2009-03-23 19:42]: >> not having "pkg_add" package installed for security reasons 2009/3/24 Henning Brauer : > fortunately denmark has (basically) no coffee, otherwise i would have > needed a new x40 keyboard. good laugh. > > what next, I wear no underwear for security reasons?

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-24 Thread Ivo Chutkin
Frothingdog.ca wrote: I've been working on a OpenBSD image for a soekris boxes. I've actually made some headway with some help and pointers from Chris (maker of flashdist). I have the image mounted to /mnt/etc using vnconfig so I can modify the files before flashing the image (ie. boot.conf, rc

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-24 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:53:57AM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: | * Luis F Urrea [2009-03-23 19:42]: | > not having "pkg_add" package installed for security reasons | | fortunately denmark has (basically) no coffee, otherwise i would have | needed a new x40 keyboard. good laugh. | | what next, I

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-24 Thread Kamil Monticolo
Dnia 2009-03-23, o godz. 12:23:00 Luis F Urrea napisaE(a): > Now, if you run ldd on the pkg_add binary you would get: > > ldd: /usr/sbin/pkg_add: not an ELF executable > > and I am not really sure why is that. Experts comments welcome here! > $ ldd `which pkg_add` ldd: /usr/sbin/pkg_add: not an

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-24 Thread Henning Brauer
* Luis F Urrea [2009-03-23 19:42]: > not having "pkg_add" package installed for security reasons fortunately denmark has (basically) no coffee, otherwise i would have needed a new x40 keyboard. good laugh. what next, I wear no underwear for security reasons? -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, he

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-23 Thread Floor Terra
> Now, if you run ldd on the pkg_add binary you would get: > > ldd: /usr/sbin/pkg_add: not an ELF executable > > and I am not really sure why is that. Experts comments welcome here! That's because /usr/sbin/pkg_add is not an ELF executable. $ file /usr/sbin/pkg_add /usr/sbin/pkg_add: perl script

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-23 Thread Frothingdog.ca
Luis F Urrea wrote: > > By default if I am not mistaken, flashdist does not include the "pkg_add" > binary and therefore for the chroot suggestion you would at least need to > get the "pkg_add" binary into the flash image. > You are correcet Luis F Urrea wrote: > > The technique used in the fl

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-23 Thread Luis F Urrea
There may be use cases for using flashdist, such as not having "pkg_add" package installed for security reasons and tailoring highly customized images ready to be flashed for FWs, NAS, VoIP GWs and so on. So, in that sense I am sure that the size of the flash is not the only motivation now a days.

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-22 Thread Nick Holland
Frothingdog.ca wrote: > That's a good idea. Didn't think about doing that. However it still puts me > in the same position as I'm in now. ??? > I don't believe that a full install of OBSD comes with all the packages. So > I'd still have to figure out how to intall the packages I require. If y

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-22 Thread Frothingdog.ca
That's a good idea. Didn't think about doing that. However it still puts me in the same position as I'm in now. I don't believe that a full install of OBSD comes with all the packages. So I'd still have to figure out how to intall the packages I require. I like the flashdist images because it'

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-21 Thread Nick Holland
Frothingdog.ca wrote: > I'm not sure of the command to run. Can you elaberate on the command. > Please keep in mind I'm pretty new to this. How about just getting a 1G CF card, and doing a normal install? What do you gain by inflicting this pain upon yourself? http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.h

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-21 Thread Frothingdog.ca
I'm not sure of the command to run. Can you elaberate on the command. Please keep in mind I'm pretty new to this. if using MTR file from here: ftp://ftp.bitwizard.nl/mtr/mtr-0.75.tar.gz Thanks again for the help. Frothingdog.ca wrote: > > I've been working on a OpenBSD image for a soekris

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-21 Thread Lars Noodén
Frothingdog.ca wrote: > I have the image mounted to /mnt/... If you are running the same version, then one way is to chroot to the new image: chroot /mnt /bin/ksh then install the packages you wish. +Lars

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-21 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 07:42:31AM -0700, Frothingdog.ca wrote: > I have the image mounted to /mnt/etc using vnconfig so I can modify the > files before flashing the image (ie. boot.conf, rc, dhcpd.conf...etc). But > I'd like to install a coupe packages into the image, such as MTR and TTCP. > How