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 mount an NFS root.
SysLinux would be best for this.
On a Debian system:
Put a formatted floppy in the first floppy drive.
Unzip /usr/lib/syslinux/img1440.gz to the raw floppy, /dev/fd0.
Mount the floppy as an MSDOS filesystem, and copy the kernel
on to it.
Edit SYSLINUX.CFG to add the NFS root parameters to the boot
command line. See the file /usr/src/linux/Documentation/nfsroot.txt,
you will have to install the kernel-source package if you have not
done so.
That should work fine.
Thanks
Bruce
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