Hi,
I wonder if anybody has an idea how to create a bootdisk for a diskless
workstation
with the kernel shipped with Cooker (or Mandrake-8.0).
The bootdisk should do the following (as I do not want to create a
special kernel!):
- load standard-kernel with:
- load initial ramdisk
- probe the NIC driver (how?)
- ask the "server" for the IP address (pump? bootpc?)
- configure network with given IP
- mount filesystems and startup diskless workstation
And this should all fit into a 3.5" floppy disk.
Any help? Any ideas?
I know that I can configure the kernel for nfs-root, but this is not the
way I want to do this.
So long,
J�rgen
