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[http://www.carleton.ca/~rgray/TaoTeChing/ Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu]

[http://www.nada.kth.se/~enge/tao.html Tao of Programming]

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PTP Plone

NewCloneArmyBox Config

Here in will be the recipe needed to install a clean, effecient and viable build of Debian, NoCat and related apps to turn a NewCloneArmyBox into a powerfull node on the PTPnet

(These are rough notes taken by JeffWillard and DarrinEden from the actions of KeeganQuinn which will be hammered into a step by step recipe)

Conventions

• text surrounded by quotes " " are things you must type either at the prompt or in response to a questions

=== The Debian Install === (booting using bf2.4 floppies and network install)

• download the boot floppies from:

  [http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/bf2.4 Debian Boot Floppies]

  • rescue.bin
  • root.bin
  • driver-1.bin
  • driver-2.bin
  • driver-3.bin
  • driver-4.bin
• build boot floppies (from a linux system)
  • dd if="file.bin" of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync;sync
• at boot prompt: mash the enter key (start 2.4 kernel vs. 2.2)
• select Language and keyboard
• hard disk (/dev/hda)
  • Create swap partition (128M)
  • Root partition --bootable (128Mb)
  • logical partition (.5 Gig)
  • 2nd logical partition (.5 Gig)
  • home (whatever is left over)

  • all FS type Linux type=83 except swap which is linux swap type=82

  • Init swap partition
  • init pri (ext3)
  • mount root filesystem

  • repeat above for var,usr,and home

• kernel install
  • insert rescue disk followed by each driver disk as prompted
  • configure device driver modules
  • kernel/drivers/net
  • nic (de4x5)
• configure network
• install the base system
  • network
• make system bootable "mbr"
• reboot
• set time
• set root pwd
• remove pcmcia packages? "yes"
• install ppp? "no"
• atp configuration "edit by hand"

  • "deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main" per KeeganQuinn : using unstable means just that..if you have issues....take a 24hr breather and attempt again

  • no additional sources
  • no security updates
• run taskel? "no"
• deselect? "no"
• update configuration file? "yes"
• Configuring debconf
  • select Readline
  • select medium
  • don't touch keymap
  • system wide readible directories? "yes"
  • serial "autosave once"
• upgrade glibc? "Y"
• update system? "yes"
• mail config? "5"
• mandb? "yes"
• rebuild database? "yes"
• erase any additional .deb files? "yes"
• "apt-get update"
• "apt-get install deborphan"
• "deborphan"

• "dbkp -P <all packages listed ---space in between>" (shouldn't this be dpkg -P ....????

• "deborphan -a"

• "dpkg -P <all packages you don't want>" which files (see below and cat up here!??? (pppoeconf pppconfig pppoe)

• "deborphan -a"

  • repeat several times to ensure all packages are removed that you don't want

• apt-get install ssh lynx ftp (don't we want ssh for mgt? and lynx used below)

The NoCat Install

• "/sbin/ifconfig -a"BR

  • {{{ eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:17:74:F6

    • inet addr:192.168.100.3 Bcast:192.168.100.255

      • Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2092 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1102 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:2 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:2948521 (2.8 MiB) TX bytes:78364 (76.5 KiB) Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe880

    eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:F8:04:F2:9F

    • BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec00

    lo Link encap:Local Loopback

    • inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) }}}

• "sudo su -"
  • {{{We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these two things:
    • #1) Respect the privacy of others. #2) Think before you type.
    Password:}}}
• "exit"
• "logout"
• "sudo -s"
• "clear"
• "apt-get install snmpd dnsmasq"
• "apt-get install perl make gnupg"
• "apt-get textutils lilo"
• "deborphan -a"
  • {{{main/admin sudo main/net ssh main/admin pciutils main/utils fileutils main/utils shellutils main/utils textutils main/utils gnupg main/net dnsmasq main/net snmpd main/base lilo main/net iptables main/devel make main/editors nvi main/admin deborphan}}}

• "lynx http://www.nocat.net" (this should be downloaded in a standard location i.e. mkdir /usr/local/incoming?)

  • Download the nightly build of NoCatAuth

  • exit lynx

• "tar xvfz NoCatAuth-nightly.tgz"

• "apt-get install wget patch"

• "wget http://rune.thebasement.org/~ice/tmp/stable-01.patch"

• "cd NoCatAuth-nightly"

• "patch -p1 < ../stable-01.patch"

• "vi /etc/kernel-img.conf"
  • {{{ do_symlinks = No do_initrd = Yes postinst_hook = /sbin/update-grub postrm_hook = /sbin/update-grub do_bootloader = No}}}
• "apt-get install kernel-image-2.4-K6"
  • I had to: "apt-get install kernel-image-2.4-686" (note: PII)
• "dpkg -P lilo"
• "apt-get install grub"
• "mkdir /boot/grub"
• "update-grub"
  • {{{Could not find /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Would you like /boot/grub/menu.lst generated for you? (y/N) "y" }}}
• "update-grub"
• reboot
  • NOTE: my box needed to have the rescue disk used to recover...
    • that still didn't work. I tried chaning out out the drives connections to different controlls. It still yeilded a microcontroller error. I've downloaded bios version 1.11 from

[http://h18000.www1.hp.com/legacysupport/digital/epid122.html BIOS v.1.11 for the dec 3500 series pc] The text file with the bios update indicates that without it the bios will loose the the hard drive. hmmm sound familiar... First modifiy bios main section, boot menu change bios to update, exit saving changes. Boot off the boot floppy that was downloaded from above and all should be better. bummer I still have a microcontroller failure. Booted off the rescue disk with boot root=/dev/hda2 then installed lilo with "apt-get install lilo" ran "liloconfig" then tested with "/sbin/lilo". Now the system boots...

• "uname -a"
• "sudo -s"
• "apt-get install ssmtp"
  • Automatically overwrite config files? "y"

  • Who gets mail for userids < 1000? "dje"

  • Name of your mailhub? "mail.personaltelco.net"
  • What domain to masquerade as? "personaltelco.net"
  • Allow override of From: line in email header? "y"
• "deborphan"
• "dpkg -P libident libpcre3"
• "deborphan"
• "cd /usr/local/incoming/NoCatAuth-nightly"
• "make gateway"
  • {{{ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    • Congratulations!

    • NoCat gateway is installed. To start it, check /usr/local/nocat/nocat.conf, then run bin/gateway as root.

    • -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-}}}
• NOTE: this might be stuff that just I had to do for my node and you may not need to do these!
  • modified /etc/network/interfaces file to automatically configure eth1
  • modify the nocat.conf
  • apt-get install dhcpd
  • set up dhcp server (yet to be done)
    • edit /etc/dhcpd.conf
    • start dhcpd with: dhcpd -cf /etc/dhcpd.conf eth1

  • download and create custom nocat splash page using the template from [http://www.personaltelco.net/splash/CURRENT_SPLASH/ PTP Current Splash ]

Installing the PTPnet Node Files

(soon to be)

Discussion

• Why unstable?
• Why couldn't this just be installed once, then imaged provided the drives are the same?
• BIOS standards? I noticed there is a way to add a boot message should this contain the node information i.e. "www.personaltelco.net/nodeXXX"
• nocat.conf file?
• standard ptp syslog server?
• snmp community strings standard?
• ops configuration? users/access/radius?
• dhcpd.conf file?
  • {{{ option domain-name "personalteleco.net";

option domain-name-servers [your dns server or local isp dns server here]; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; default-lease-time 600; max-lease-time 8600; subnet 10.11.X.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {

• range 10.11.X.2 10.11.X.253; option domain-name-servers dns_server_ip, dns_server_ip; option domain-name "personalteleco.net"; option routers 10.11.X.1; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; option broadcast-address 10.11.X.255; default-lease-time 600; max-lease-time 8600;

}

• }}}

• Is there a standard for the AP's management interface i.e. 10.11.X.254?