<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the suggestions, guys! <div><br></div><div>I was thinking of IP-tables too. I know it needs some sort of forwarding of the traffic from the TFTP server to the main NIC that goes to the router. Technical reading for another time, I suppose.</div> <div><br></div><div>My plan was to use this very out-dated machine to simply play internet radio streams via the console given that it uses very little energy. I like having background music in my house when I'm home </div> <div>but I can absolutely no longer listen to any commercial radio stations; the advertising and yackity-yack is mind-numbing...that's an entirely different conversation! </div><div><br></div><div>I put the Debian network install disk ISO on to my USB flash drive and did a base install. Building the rest from that point without the xorg and all of that stuff.</div> <div><br></div><div>Cheers...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Nick Campbell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:campbellnick000@gmail.com" target="_blank">campbellnick000@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Greetings,</p> <p dir="ltr">With the configuration you described here you'd probably want to look at iptables on the host machine for all of the forwarding-fu. It's as not difficult as it sounds but it can get somewhat confusing. I've never personally attempted it with a direct connection to the client but it *shouldn't* be much different.</p> <p dir="ltr">It is a tad overkill in your situation but If you still want to give it a shot I'd be happy to help you try to get it working once I am back at a keyboard (software keyboards are an exercise in insanity). If you would still like to give it a go let me know.</p> <p dir="ltr">Additionally, hello GLLUG list! :)</p> <p dir="ltr">--<br> Nick Campbell<br> <a href="https://squirreltelepathy.info" target="_blank">https://squirreltelepathy.info</a></p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 10, 2014 4:13 PM, "J Neveau" <<a href="mailto:neveauj@gmail.com" target="_blank">neveauj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div dir="ltr">Well, it's one of those things where I don't "have" to use a PXE boot. But I just wanted to see if I could figure out how to do it using this machine:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.fic.com.tw/product/iona603.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.fic.com.tw/product/iona603.aspx</a> obviously, no optical drive. I was able to squeeze a 60gigabyte laptop IDE drive into it though!<br> <div><br></div><div>All of the stuff I've been finding online is for configuring the client machine (target of install) with it being a part of the regular network, i.e.-attached</div><div>to the router like the other machines, including the one with the boot image files and such.</div> <div><br></div><div>My configuration was to have the client machine directly attached to the host machine (via eth0) which was then attached to the router for web access</div><div>(via eth1). The host machine has two NICs built onto the motherboard.</div> <div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, with my limited networking knowledge (enough to get myself into trouble) I was not able to figure out how to use the host machine not only as</div><div>the PXE boot host with the install files, but also the bridge to allow the client doing the Debian install to have internet access to complete the installation via</div> <div>a mirror.</div><div><br></div><div>I ended up just using a Debian installation ISO on a 1 gigabyte USB flash memory stick and ran the network cable direct to the router. So far, so good. If I</div><div>can get basic Debian install on the AMD Geode, I want to try building a cut-down, streamlined kernel for it; again, just to see if I can get it to work.</div> <div><br></div><div>I didn't want to get too carried away with my workstation machine (host) as I mainly use it to edit video/audio; no telling what I might have done had I started trying to</div><div>set up a mirror on that machine for the client to use....eek.</div> <div><br></div><div>Thanks for the suggestions, though. I appreciate the input!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Patrick Goupell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:patrick@upmerchants.com" target="_blank">patrick@upmerchants.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br> On 01/09/2014 10:05 PM, J Neveau wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Greetings everyone,<br> <br> **initial disclaimer; new to this stuff, not good with networking**<br> <br> I was able to get a PXE boot started for a Debian installation on an AMD Geode machine. The installer begins fine and it gets to the point of asking for a mirror to use for installation packages. I select the main Debian mirror. This is where it fails as it seems unable to access the internet. 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