On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:52:32 -0500 Scott Ehrlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am interested in trying to create and NFS-capable boot floppy. > What steps are needed? Where do I start? > > I have set up many Linux boxes before and have mounted drives, compiled > stuff (including new kernels), etc, so I am not new to Linux - just new to > creating boot floppies and the process behind it. You can create nfsroot boot images with building kernel with whatever options required for NFS-mounting, and then setting the root device to /dev/nfsboot. dd if=bzImage of=/dev/fd0 rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/nfsboot where /dev/nfsroot is: ls -l /dev/nfsroot brw-r--r-- 1 root root 0, 255 Jan 22 2002 /dev/nfsroot I cannot remember whether it was nfsroot or nfsboot or whether the name mattered. The major/minor number of the device is probably important, and I think /dev/nfsroot doesn't exist on a system per default. ... which was documented in Documentation/nfsroot.txt in the kernel source tree in a very detailed manner. :) But I don't know if that's what you wanted. You can also hack grub to netboot your kernel from network. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
