ffw4's Introduction

ffw4

The good old floppyfw, now generation 4.

But what will this be? It's still Buildroot based but this time without a devkit. You just download / clone ffw4 and buildroot, pick the defconfig you want (right now it's ffw4-vm for virtual machines and ffw4-pi for RaspberryPi.) and start making.

I will provide images aswell, and those will of course be found here. Images in a floppy? Sorry, no. I am pretty sure that's practically impossible, just the compiled kernel for vmfw is 1.9MB

So, what's the main difference from floppyfw-3.0?

It does not fit on a floppy. It has grown way beyond my liking and the base image is now 40MB.
No web server, no GUI. Just edit files and run along.
/etc/init.d/ - initscripts. But still very simple and main config is done in ff2.conf (which was named config before)
Newest possible released Linux kernel (3.17 when this was written.
No iptables,but instead I've jumped directly to nftables
Can be compiled and run on anything that Buildroot can be persuaded to build for. Right now it's RaspberryPi and Virtualbox, but I also want to run it on one or more Mikrotik routers.

Install/Build

Download/clone buildroot.
cp Makefile.ffw-dist Makefile.ffw
Edit Makefile
- You need to pick a variant. (Or use an environment variable)
- and change at least the placement of the buildroot source.
For now, to handle the ffw4 specific stuff in Makefile.ffw you have to run mk.sh.
Copy the config files you want to edit from ffw4-configs/ to local-configs/ and edit them there. They will be copied into the image on image creation.

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