I have a similar situation here, and would be interested in finding out how you solve the problem.
I have applied the 'Transnames Patch' to my kernel, and have the root filesystem of my server box mounted on the 'diskless' machine. They both use the same physical file system, so Debian only needs to be installed once and both computers can use all of it, with minor hand-modifications to support Transnames. I am booting the second box with a floppy, to simulate an ethernet bootrom boot. It is using bootp right now. The hard drive in it is mounted under /aux; it could go anyplace though. The boot floppy I made using the methods described in the Documentation dir under the kernel source. If you like, I have made a version of the Transnames patch, using CVS, against kernel 2.0.25. It is on my WWW page. The patch is identical to the one found on sunsite, except that I have hand-fixed a .rej where a variable name had changed between 2.0.? and 2.0.25. It was working fairly well; I've yet to reconfigure after changing my Internet setup. (I've a lot to learn about networking; I want my local machines to be on their own net, and have the server still on the Internet.) -- Participate in history! __ _ Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / Portland, OR, USA / /__| | | | | |_| |> < Proudly running Linux 2.0.25 transname \____/_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ and Debian GNU public software! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
