Re: NFS Booting

2000-06-11 Thread Ron Rademaker
There's a package bootless, perhaps that'll get you a bit further Ron Rademaker On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Lavu Sridhar wrote: > > I want to use the Debian Image as a NFS. So I have downloaded the image > and unzipped it in a i686 architecture PC. I am using the 2.3.99 kernel > and have used boot

Re: nfs-booting with a null-modem cable ?

1997-05-28 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 27 May 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: >Oops. Right - he wants to use PPP. Sorry, my answer _was_ specific to >Ethernet. > >You'd need to use INITRD. That's a good deal harder, but do-able. You would >have to load a small root filesystem, start up PPPD, mount t

Re: nfs-booting with a null-modem cable ?

1997-05-28 Thread Bruce Perens
Bruce: > Not nearly so difficult, he can use a floppy drive. You can load > the kernel from floppy and have it mount an NFS root. SysLinux > would be best for this. From: Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I presume that this will only work if you're using NFS over something > like ethernet (not

Re: nfs-booting with a null-modem cable ?

1997-05-28 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > Not nearly so difficult, he can use a floppy drive. You can load > the kernel from floppy and have it mount an NFS root. SysLinux > would be best for this. I presume that this will only work if you're using NFS over something like ethernet (not that nf

Re: nfs-booting with a null-modem cable ?

1997-05-28 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If you're talking about the 486 booting from an nfs mounted root on > your PPro machine, I think you may need an ethernet card with special > boot ROMs. Not nearly so difficult, he can use a floppy drive. You can load the kernel from floppy and have it moun

Re: nfs-booting with a null-modem cable ?

1997-05-28 Thread Rob Browning
Alexandre Lebrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to set up my PPro to enable my 486 to boot nfs. > looking at mknfsroot, this should be possible and perhaps easy with eth > cards. If you're talking about the 486 booting from an nfs mounted root on your PPro machine, I think you may need a