Debian packages

Click here for documentation about how to use the boot disk generator.

RPM packages

Click here for documentation about how to use the boot disk generator.

Sources

Udpcast itself:

The boot environment:

The kernel customizations:

Build environment for kernel and mkimage deb's:

Just adapt version number (in changelog and at the top of rules), copy (or symlink) the needed tar and diff files to the root, and do dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

Compilation instructions

Compiling udpcast itself

  1. Untar the file:
    tar xzvf udpcast-20100130.tar.gz
  2. Cd into the source directory:
    cd udpcast
  3. Compile:
    make
  4. As root, install:
    make install
This gives you a standalone udp-sender and udp-receiver, suitable for use on a filesserver. For the bootable version, see below.

Compiling the boot loader

Compiling the busybox based boot loader is described here. Undulatus Asperatus Clouds