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Re: netatalk, ubuntu, and netboot

On 09/12/2010 03:41 AM, Ivan X wrote:

Ok! Here's what I've been able to accomplish with netatalk. I'm reasonably
satisfied for now.


(snip..)

Nice work, and thanks for the writeup!


I haven't yet tested to see whether the fixes in Steven's modified 2.0.3 are
in the newer versions. I did look at the diff file and could see that the
ProDOS date issue doesn't seem fixed in the newer source.
It's been years since I've bothered to submit patches, so it would be surprising if that did make it in. Are you able to reproduce the problem? In thinking about it, I'm not sure that the failure to preserve file date occurred in both directions. 


Things to do:
- Look at Steven's 2.0.3 mods and see if they can be applied to the newer
source code and perhaps make an updated diff and/or deb (unless you want to,
Steven...)
It's very unlikely that I'll have the cycles to do that. Would appreciate your being able to put a deb together. 


- Write a utility to make the a2config and netboot setup easy.


Terrific.


- share files with and netboot from a NAS. To answer Steven's question, I
have a Western Digital My Book World Edition, which has been pretty
extensively documented: (http://mybookworld.wikidot.com). There's already a
premade netatalk package that I'm using, though as you suggested it only
offers AFP-over-TCP because AppleTalk protocol support isn't compiled into
the Linux kernel. WD does provide the kernel source and I downloaded it, and
AppleTalk is there, so yes, it should be doable; I've just never done it.
But I've seen enough to think that this NAS should be able to share files
with and netboot an Apple II!
If you are able to setup for cross-compile (is that NAS MIPS-based like so many of the routers?) then building in atalk protocol is just a matter of turning on the kernel configuration option. Don't forget that the ddp protocol entry needs to be in /etc/protocols. 

Very cool to see this stuff in use!

Steve