On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:46:59AM +0200, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > The Hurd is booted directly, and there is no middle man who is restricting > > us from doing more clever stuff, like booting the Hurd from the net etc. > > Except for pfinet, which cannot be used until after the root > filesystem is setup.
Well, I don't think you would need or use pfinet to boot from a networked storage, although I am also not clear on exactly what it would require. You would probably use a different bootstrapping filesystem than ext2fs, but even this can be loaded over the net with GRUB (which is what I meant above). In any way, a diskless Hurd system can now be implement without adding network support in serverboot. Oh, and of course partitions can be handled in user space without adding partition support to serverboot, too. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
