DynaSlax, DynaSlaxGNS3 and DynaSlaxUSB LiveCDs
Written by LBSources from http://www.gns3-labs.com on June 23rd, 2008 | 11 CommentsWell .. It seems that someone has put some hard work into creating 3 awesome livecds. He’s (deadwait) built and tested Dynamips/Dynagen and GNS3 in the livecd and USB key formats. They are called DynaSlax, DynaSlaxGNS3 and I call the last DynaSlaxUSB
No official docs for the USB or GNS3 version yet. I guess he’s working on it. This is great as it should help those with low resource avail systems, but may operate a little slow due to disk access.
The creator says he’s created flawless labs with 14 routers. We will host these files here for the author since he doesn’t have any reliable (or speed) links available.
Links and info below
Documentation (Added 7/2/2008)
To record the iso on to a cd this could be helpful or use your favourite cd burning program: ISO Recorder v 2
boot your system with the slax cd, once the desktop shows up
open a terminal window and type in “python dynalive.py” without the quotations
this just sets the right permissions and creates symlinks in /usr/bin.once you have done that just start dynamips as you normally would.
i.e open a terminal windows and type in dynamips -H 7200
read the following below
*** Important ****
your .net files and images can be anywhere on a permanent drive like your windows harddisk or a usb but your have to change your working directory to somewhere on the slax partition
i have set a directory in the dynalive folder on the desktop, so if you would like just type in the foll. path as your working directory
workingdir = /root/Desktop/dynalive/wkgdir
the above line should be typed in .net file
remember to change your image path ,
to get your correct image path open up system –> storage media
here you can see you hardrives so your first harddrive which might be your c: will have a path of /mnt/sda1 where sda1 stands for your c:/
so if your image is in c:/images on windows then your image path will be
/mnt/sda1/images
in fact in the konqueror ( file manager ) address bar you can see the entire path, just replace /media with /mnt
you can right click on your hard-drive to see the correct sda info.
then after you finish your lab practise, you can copy the contents on to your harddrive.
i used slax because it was small plus had a easy to understand KDE desktop and very clear instructions on how to make your own cd, so you too can make one.
additions made on this normal Slax cd
dynagen
dynamips
python2.5.2 lzm module
wireshark module –> wireshark-1.0.0-i486-1tb
telnet module –> telnet-1.5
cli-ftp module –> cli-ftp-pack
nano module –> nano-2.0.6
slax-get module –> slax-get-0.7.2
john the ripper module –> john-1.7.0.2
nmap module –> nmap-4.60
To make your own live-cd check out http://www.slax.org.
Reason for making this CD
One of my colleagues screwed up his harddisk trying to partition and install ubuntu so that he could run dynamips and dynagen on it for the added performance benefit that linux gives.
to recover the data i ended up using slax ( im usually a archlinux user)
then it struck me that getting a live cd to run dynagen would be pretty safe and easy for normal users.
Link Backs:
- Dynamips on live CD
- Dynaslax gns3 Downloads
- Dynagen Dynamips on Live CD or usb
- Dynaslax gns3 Downloads
- Dynamips on live CD
- GNS3 on live cd
Tags: DeadWait, Dynagen, Dynamip - Dynagen LiveCD, Dynamips, DynaSlax, DynaSlaxGNS3, DynaSlaxUSB, GNS3, GNS3 LiveCD, Slackware









July 2nd, 2008 at 7:52 am
DeadWait has added more documentation on how to get this all working..
http://deadwait.wordpress.com/documentation/
July 6th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
New Dynaslax version .. DynaFlux
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Looks great, just tested it and its damn good.
pushkar bhaktoti
August 7th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
New live CD available using Slitaz linux
http://www.gns3-labs.com/2008/08/07/deadwait-dynataz-is-live-the-hybrid-of-dynamips-dynagen-on-a-live-cd/
January 14th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Hi,
i appreciatted the work that you did, with this cd, its very ussesful. but i want to install in a laptop, because a dont want to boot every time when a need i want to have it like a OS in this laptop. But i dont know how i can do it?, can you help me, i appreciated it so much.
regards.
juan
P.D= if you can help me please explain it to dummies because i dont have a lot skills in linux. again regards
January 15th, 2009 at 8:23 am
Hi juan,
installing this could be a bit tricky if you dont have much experience in linux, but its not that tough. hmm, come to think of it, i think it deserves a tutorial page for the same. give me till tomorrow and ill get back with a screenshot tutorial and if possible a video, here on this site itself.
February 19th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Dear Friend,
Before commenting or questioning on your greatest work…. I would like to thank you for giving us such a nice live CD..
I did everything whatever you have instructed over here…
But whenever I try to start the router on GNS3 I am getting error like
Error: could not communicate with dynamips server localhost
It may have crashed. Check the dynamips server output.
Exiting..
Sometimes it gives me error like cannot communicate on port 7200 or 7201..and after sometimes automatically this works fine…
but I still could not start the router…
Please advice..
Thanks again..
mil…
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March 14th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
good write-up i would certainly like to find out more.|interesting, I will try this out and report back.
June 21st, 2010 at 11:25 am
Hello Dear Author and all Ciscoholics !
Thanks for a theme, but I here would like to ask smth. else, that really stubs me for a week or about. I run a GNS 0.7.2 distrib undet Ubuntu 10.04 TLS, and after when console to routers, 5 or maybe 7, doesn’t matter, router stops to respond. That’s it. Restarting console doesn’t help, only rebooting devices, and only for a while. I must say, that approx. 2-3 of all 7 router topology stub, others tend to respond, and looks like no problem with them.. I used different IOSes for 3640 and 3745 platforms, actually others one also, that doesn’t matter. Please, give a hand, if you’ve got a solution. And excuse me if I’m not to the correct branch.
Cheers, Ivan