minimum live cd distro to check ping

mehargags · 04-30-2004, 12:52 PM

Hi,
we Provide internet over LAN here& im the head main admin.
Im looking for a "bare minimum "LIVE cd distro that can be booted OFF a CD,, automatilly Probes the ethernet card & Assigns it a Static IP 172.16.0.10 / 255.255.0.0 . this is how my network is setup over static IP's.

sometimes there is a problem of corrupt Files or other software level Corruption at User's End. so in that case i can just Boot OFF this Live cd-- check the Ping status of the machine & conclude if its just a Sofware Level Problem or there is a Hardware Fault over the NIC or the Wire etc..

I w'd Like the ditro to be as small as possible .. NO X nor any other modules other than latest NIC drivers are needed. can someone Point me to such a Distro.

Shade · 04-30-2004, 07:11 PM

This is probably something you'll have to do yourself.
I would do a minimal slackware install, compile your own kernel with all the PCI netcards as modules, enable hotplug, and then head over to the slax live cd site to get some guidance on how to work from there.

I can't think of a live cd that would be set up in this manner already for you, although I'd bet Knoppix-STD would come close. You'd still have to enter the IP yourself, of course.

Another option is to modify an existing one, like morphix or knoppix, or slax -- most of these sites have information on user modification as well.

--Shade

Grymme · 05-04-2004, 06:14 AM

Do you really need a cd for that? You could fit those requirements on a floppy!

Check out http://www.toms.net/rb/

Here's a list of the stuff included on this one floppy distro:

Code:

What you have is... AHA152X AHA1542 AIC7XXX BUSLOGIC DAC960 DEC_ELCP(TULIP)
EATA EEXPRESS/PRO/PRO100 EL2 EL3 EXT2 EXT3 FAT FD IDE-CD/DISK/TAPE IMM INITRD
ISO9660 JOLIET LOOP MATH_EMULATION MINIX MSDOS NCR53C8XX NE2000 NFS NTFS
PARPORT PCINE2K PCNET32 PLIP PPA RTL8139 SD SERIAL/_CONSOLE SLIP SMC_ULTRA SR
ST VFAT VID_SELECT VORTEX WD80x3 .exrc 3c589_cs agetty ash badblocks basename
boot.b buildit.s busybox bz2bzImage bzip2 cardmgr cardmgr.pid cat chain.b
chattr chgrp chmod chown chroot clear clone.s cmp common config cp cpio cs
cut date dd dd-lfs debugfs ddate df dhcpcd-- dirname dmesg domainname ds du
dumpe2fs e2fsck echo egrep elvis ex false fdflush fdformat fdisk filesize
find findsuper fmt fstab grep group gunzip gzip halt head hexdump hexedit
host.conf hostname hosts httpd i82365 ifconfig ile init inittab insmod
install.s issue kernel key.lst kill killall killall5 ld ld-linux length
less libc libcom_err libe2p libext2fs libtermcap libuuid lilo lilo.conf ln
loadkmap login ls lsattr lsmod lua luasocket man map md5sum miterm mkdir
mkdosfs mke2fs mkfifo mkfs.minix mknod mkswap more more.help mount mt mtab mv
nc necho network networks nmclan_cs nslookup passwd pax pcmcia_core pcnet_cs
pidof ping poweroff printf profile protocols ps pwd rc.0 rc.S rc.custom
rc.custom.gz rc.pcmcia reboot rescuept reset resolv.conf rm rmdir rmmod route
rsh rshd script sed serial serial_cs services setserial settings.s sh shared
slattach sleep sln sort split stab strings swapoff swapon sync tail tar tcic
tee telnet telnetd termcap test tomshexd tomsrtbt.FAQ touch traceroute true
tune2fs umount undeb-- unpack.s unrpm-- update utmp vi vi.help view watch
wc wget which xargs xirc2ps_cs yecho yes zcat

You could also burn this as a bootable CD. Instructions can be found at http://www.toms.net/rb/tomsrtbt.FAQ

Hope this helps.. it's probably among the smallest you'll find with this capability!