CS-Mars6.0 in vm.pdf

CS-Mars V6.0 in VMWARE (Franken Mars) Tags: Cisco, cs-mars, franken, Linux, Security Bookmark: Share/Save Emulating software is a very grey area for Cisco, they make their money by selling boxes so I guess officially Cisco don’t approve of things like GNS3 and PEMU. BUT cisco make a lot of their money from techies training in Cisco products who then get their management to buy boxes their certified in, as a result cisco appear to turn a blind eye to emulating their products for personal training purposes So, I’m installing a CS-Mars box in the next couple of weeks and wanted to know what’s new in version 6. How to setup version 4 is already document here in this franken cs-mars guide, the thing is to upgrade from 4 to 6 is a re-image of the box. Upon re-imaging my VMWare appliance I realised that the lilo commands linux rw init=/bin/bash didn’t appear to work anymore. As a result I have a v6 mars box I can’t use due to a licensing problem. To get this working read through both the old instructions, and what I have written. The init/boot sequence of a mars box looks very much like a centos/fedora boot, so I thought up a cunning new plan. I downloaded the 1st installation CD of centos 5, after booting this CD instead of hitting “enter” and running the anaconda installer I typed linux rescue, this boots my appliance into a root linux shell. (See Update Below, boot from CentOS straight after MARS installs, don’t let MARS boot!) What happened next was a little hit and miss, if you’re lucky you can type mkdir /mnt/opt mount /dev/md2 /mnt/opt you can then as per the old documentation. If you’re unlucky this “mount” will fail, in this case ls /mnt/sysimage if you can’t see any files issue mount /dev/md1 /mnt/sysimage otherwise the plan is to change the root password so that we can edit the pnlicense file later. cd /mnt/opt/janus/release/bin mv pnlicense echo /bin/echo d84f7ceaf50f9c45683e2efb77752d4f:License verified:4:0:0:4 pnl