In da Wok ……

First things first, — > Dynaslax or Dynataz is not going to get your cpu to run faster or automatically adjust all your idle cpu’s so that you just call your .net files and everything begins working. You still need to keep experimenting with your idle cpu’s i have had someone send me over a internetwork expert ccie .net file and i can run the same with 34 % cpu utilisation with the full lab running . if i save the idle cpu’s there is no guarantee that the next time i reboot it will work in the same way. but sometimes it does. as i said there is no guarantee. keep working the idle cpu’s they are the key to dynamips nirvana.

the purpose for making this cd was only for you to not have to reformat your drive or actually have to learn linux too much. that said i have to tried to make everything point and click ( which is not actually much ) you are always better off working on a actual linux system like ubuntu, which if you ask me suits the linux newcomer the best. but if you cant pull of even ubuntu then go for dynaslax/dynataz, even though the cd has much of it preinstalled you still have do a little stuff . like understanding what is linux calling your hard drive or your USB drive for that matter.

this document is not like other documents it will just have simple points written, try and get it. update : this section has been added here since dynatazgns has been released.dynaslax documentation is available below as before

DynatazGns

1: dynatazgns cd will automatically detect and mount your current windows partition as long as it is a NTFS partition. ( which most probably it should be). these partitions are available in the /mnt/dev directory and will be named sda1 sda2 or hda1 hda2 and so forth.

2: the red smiley icon is for the Arora web browser, and the Half golf ball sort of icon is Gns3.  the version of arora which i have kept does not support flash so no youtube , also https sites do not open in it, but you can check out all your favourite forums in it.

3: Gns3 runs as it is, just click on it, it is also available in the menu, click on the spider–> internet –> Gns3 and your up, when Gns3 opens up, click on edit and then go to preferences, click on dynamips and the type in dynamips in the executable path column, you will have to remove the dot which is already there. once you have written dynamips and check on sparse_memory if you need it, click on test, it should give you the message dynamips has successfully started.

4: further you can setup your ios path by navigating to your windows directory as shown below.

and thats it your done.

if you have further doubts, send me a comment or a mail, or you can also mention it on my thread at hacki’s forum.

Dynaslax

1: First of all, remember that your labs and images will remain in your windows hard drive you don’t have to change them, but to make things easy for you keep all of them in your c: itself with directories that dont have space in them and in small case , remember that linux is case sensitive , what i do is i keep my labs in c:\labs and images in c:\images below i have mentioned about the working directory, read it, thats really the most important part related to dynaslax. if your dynamips crashes when your load the .net file itself then you have not set your working directory right, and if dynamips crashed as say when you load your tenth router then check the amount of ram you have setup for your routers, if sparsemem if turned off or on, lower the ram size and check. when i run 14 3640’s then i use 128mb ram and i dont touch the sparse mem option.

2: in your .net file you will NEED to specify a working directory, if you are using the live cd then the working directory has to be on the linux system not on your windows harddrive. you could use the following working directory i have already made on the cd /root/Desktop/dynalive/wkgdir that means in your .net file you add the foll line, workingdir = /root/Desktop/dynalive/wkdir. After your complete your labs and you would like to save your working directory then just copy the same on to your windows harddrive . If you are using the USB drive then your working directory has to be in the usb drive for eg. yoru USB drive will be in /mnt/sdb1 so you can point your working directory there itself. eg : workingdir = /mnt/sdb1

3: when you open the filemanager ( a file manager is like your windows explorer, you know, where your see the contents of your hardisk and all ) , in the address bar you will see /media/sda1 etc. . Well the /media cannot be used in your file paths instead of /media you will type /mnt . eg your simple1.net file is the c:\labs directory on your windows system. when your start with dynaslax you are starting an actual full blown linux system and linux see’s your harddrives differently . So your c:\labs will be now seen to you as /media/sda1/labs or /media/hda1/labs and in that your simple1.net file might exist so you when you start dynagen you start it with the following command ( i am assuming here the c: is sda1 - it could be hda 1 or sdb1 or hdb2) dynagen /mnt/sda1/labs/simple1.net - remember what i told you earlier, i have replaced media with mnt .

3: the same goes for images c:\images will be /mnt/sda1/images so in your image path you will type image = /mnt/sda1/images/C3640-JS.bin

4: always use extracted images. this will save you ram.

5: respect the idlepc

as and when i finish i will be adding screenshots, right now i am spending my time making dynaslax small, with slax this is very easy , its down to 122mb right now so its just the user interface which needs some polishing , today is 1st july so by evening the new 122mb iso will be up.