Re: Improving the Aranym image
On 01/21/2015 11:43 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>> I neither get a working video console through X nor do I get a
>> working networking setup. All that works is setting the SDL
>
> I booted it, and I got somewhere at least. X doesn’t work, sure.
> I’ll retry it tomorrow.
I wasn't talking about X in the client but just the console on X. I
used X forwarding to start Aranym on a big server and tried to get
the output show on my laptop. It remained in the Aranym splash
screen and never changed. Apparently X forwarding doesn't work properly
with Aranym.
>> The network setup fails with:
>>
>> [....] Configuring network interfaces...Cannot find device "eth0"
>> Failed to bring up eth0.
>
> Eh? WFM… I’ll have a look. Meanwhile, post your ARAnyM version
> and how you invoked it.
I used the latest Aranym version from unstable and followed your
instructions [1], step by step. I am pretty sure you need to use
brctl as well as shown here [2].
>> Can we work on improving this a bit? The goal should be that people
>> can just download the image, follow the instructions and get a working
>> Linux m68k machine which works out-of-the-box so they can setup buildds,
>> for example.
>
> This used to work with the 2012-Apr image, and AFAICT also the
> current one. If not, I’ll nachbesser, of course.
We just need to make sure, networking works 100% when just following
the instructions from [1].
>> Does anyone know how I can convince Aranym to start a getty on the
>> nfcon device? I tried passing kernel command line parameters as well as
>
> Not possible, nfcon is one direction only (parallel printer).
Yes, I just figured that out.
> The console is not usable over VNC, so the only possible solution
> for remote/headless ARAnyM is to use SSH exclusively. (Yes, there
> is no sshd in the image. Yes, this is by design – it needs entropy;
> while I could provide some, that would neither be pure Debian, nor
> would it be considered reliable by paranoid people.)
Well, Aranym is mainly for testing and developing purposes and not for
setting up your super important file server. And paranoid people
shouldn't be using emulators anyway :).
Adrian
> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Aranym/Quick
> [2] http://wiki.aranym.org/manual#networking
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