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- <h1>Linux on net4501</h1>
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- <p>This page explains how to install <a
- href="http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/">Red Hat Linux</a> 7.2 on
- the <a href="http://www.soekris.com/net4501.htm">net4501</a>.</p>
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- <p>The net4501 is a small computer designed for firewalls and VPN
- routers, made by <a href="http://www.soekris.com/">Soekris
- Engineering</a>. It has three network ports and a slot for a flash
- card, but no hard disk, floppy disk or CD-ROM drive. You can install
- Linux onto the flash card either by using a machine with appropriate
- hardware, or by using PXE (network boot). The PXE method is described
- here.</p>
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- <h2>Prerequisits</h2>
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- <p>Before you begin, you will need the following hardware and software:</p>
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- <ul>
- <li>A machine on which to build and export the filesystem</li>
- <li>A net4501 with flash card installed</li>
- <li>A serial cable</li>
- </ul>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/">Linux 2.4 kernel source</a></li>
- <li><a href="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/">Red Hat 7.2 RPMS for i386</a></li>
- <li>NFS server</li>
- <li>DHCP server</li>
- <li>PXE server</li>
- <li>TFTP server</li>
- <li><a href="http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php">PXELINUX</a></li>
- <li>C compiler</li>
- <li>Perl interpreter</li>
- <li>A terminal emulator (eg. minicom)</li>
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- <p>Red Hat doesn't ship pxelinux in their syslinux package. Get it
- from <a
- href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/">kernel.org</a>
- or an old copy from this page, below.</p>
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- <h2>Installation</h2>
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- <li><a href="bootstrap">Set up the bootstrap environment (PXE, DHCP etc.)</a></li>
- <li><a href="kernel">Create a network boot kernel</a></li>
- <li><a href="filesystem">Construct a root filesystem on another machine</a></li>
- <li><a href="netboot">Boot the net4501 from the network</a></li>
- <li><a href="flash">Copy the root filesystem onto the net4501's flash card</a></li>
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- <h2>Download</h2>
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- <li><a href="soekris.tar.gz">soekris.tar.gz</a> [12K] (<a href="filelist">View contents</a>)</li>
- <li><a href="pxelinux.0">pxelinux</a> [8K]</li>
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