30min after you installed this package on your server, you can: . Insert a nfsrootbootfloppy (create one with "mknfsrootboot") in any computer on your local network that has it's networkcard configured (running whatever OS), press "RESET", and hey presto, it's running LINUX! (and is configured to do just as much as your server, by default). . This package allows you to have most /etc files on the clients the same as the server, and some different. You'll need 30k disk space per potential client, and it's got a daemon that probes the network for hw adresses, and puts them in /etc/bootpd, and makes /tftpboot entries (excluding hosts in /etc/nfsroot/ignorehosts).
It really works very well for me, hope it does so for you too. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Format: 1.5 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 21:59:58 +0200 Source: nfsroot Binary: nfsroot Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.0 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: nfsroot - Set up server to allow nfsroot clients to boot. Changes: nfsroot (0.0) unstable; urgency=low . * initial version. Files: f9c7ce1d75ea9d92824309458072817d 528 net optional nfsroot_0.0.dsc 8bc6d20354d5fce9ff321f983b41d256 27945 net optional nfsroot_0.0.tar.gz 9ea33dd3df295135c39d93016c0adf0d 521446 net optional nfsroot_0.0_i386.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMk6khJNVaG8BiEBRAQGiTgP+Mq0jACIyLynvFA2DfiNdDmNEVAtJ1HNw nsRj/d+8WLpQ396VPYCe7+Y7qK17DUiU/T4dN2VRIzxcCvHizJDiJRiZLIB2VafD 8elA/4sY91h2NdS+zb/xdC2SDMzydnPpdYk067hk6pVahQYSIFsan2GX1QVQi/g8 w38E9nxGRGQ= =C9lx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]