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 cyoung 
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Joined: Apr 2001  FL, USA
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Posted: 7/30/2012 9:08:09 AM
THE IMAGE ABOVE IS A PAID ADVERTISEMENT So, here is the scoop. For reasons too stupid and lengthy to explain here, I need to locate a Linux Live CD image that some of our front line testers can use to boot a host computer into to do the following: 1. See the current IP address on the wired ethernet port and change it to a manually assigned IP address, if necessary. 2. See and/or change the speed and duplex of the wired ethernet port. 3. The hard one: support Sun Java in a browser to run the network test on this site: http://ndt.server.ufl.edu:7123/ 4. Prefer to be able to boot from an ordinary flash drive. The troublesome part has been item #3. The network test app does not seem to play well with the 3rd party Java emulators and my efforts at shoehorning Sun Java into some Live CD images on a USB drive have been less than successful. Advice? Thanks! |
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Posted: 7/30/2012 2:59:24 PM
Have you tried backtrack 5 on a USB ? You should be able to install Java onto that.
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Posted: 7/30/2012 4:27:45 PM
Is this for an ethernet adapter, or a managed switch?
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Posted: 7/30/2012 9:04:03 PM
If you can script the Java installation, then any distro will do -just run the script at boot.
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Posted: 7/31/2012 12:53:18 PM
I've tried BT5 and a few others; the problem is that the applet requires Sun Java which is a giant pain in the ass to get into the OS and browser now.
The idea is to allow our help desk primates to boot a laptop off a flash drive while connected to one of our metro ethernet interfaces and be able to conduct more advanced diagnosis using this java applet. |
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Posted: 8/1/2012 3:24:56 AM
Originally Posted By cyoung:
Good day, everyone! So, here is the scoop. For reasons too stupid and lengthy to explain here, I need to locate a Linux Live CD image that some of our front line testers can use to boot a host computer into to do the following: 1. See the current IP address on the wired ethernet port and change it to a manually assigned IP address, if necessary. 2. See and/or change the speed and duplex of the wired ethernet port. 3. The hard one: support Sun Java in a browser to run the network test on this site: http://ndt.server.ufl.edu:7123/ 4. Prefer to be able to boot from an ordinary flash drive. The troublesome part has been item #3. The network test app does not seem to play well with the 3rd party Java emulators and my efforts at shoehorning Sun Java into some Live CD images on a USB drive have been less than successful. Advice? Thanks! Any reason why you need it to be a live image? I've installed Arch Linux to a flash drive, customized it how I wanted, and then made a raw image from it that I could dd over to other drives if necessary. |
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Posted: 8/2/2012 12:42:50 PM
Basically, corporate has locked down the laptops for our field staff so much that they are just plain useless. The idea is to have the field folks boot off the flash drive, run the troubleshooting tools, and report the results back to us.
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Posted: 8/3/2012 3:25:12 AM
[Last Edit: 8/3/2012 3:26:00 AM by Mike327]
Originally Posted By cyoung:
Basically, corporate has locked down the laptops for our field staff so much that they are just plain useless. The idea is to have the field folks boot off the flash drive, run the troubleshooting tools, and report the results back to us. So if there's no requirement for it to be a 'live' disc image, then just install to the flash drive like you'd install Linux to any other drive. I use Arch Linux, so this would be the relevant article: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_Arch_Linux_on_a_USB_key [ETA: made link hot ] Boot up to a live disc for the distro you want to work with, install to a usb flash drive (i.e. when the installer wants you to set up partitioning, switch disks to your flash drive, probably /dev/sdb) and then boot from the flash drive once the installation completes. Any changes you make will be saved, because it's like any other disk. Then, once you're done customizing it ( such as a working java for the browser), use "dd" or "partimage" or other tools that can image the usb disk and copy that image to the other flash drives you want to boot from. |
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Posted: 8/3/2012 2:24:54 PM
Thanks! This proved more successful. I made an Ubuntu install on a flash drive and most of the tests ran just dandy once I got Sun Java plugged into Mozilla.
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