On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 07:50:35AM -0600, Mike Eggleston wrote: > I have two laptops that I can use for my cluster, but I cannot dump > M$ to load with linux nor have I been able to get a combination > from www.rom-o-matic.com that will boot the laptop to the network. > The question is, does anyone know of a minimal distro that will > load from from a floppy or from cd-rom that will get me far enough > to mount nfs filesystems and run my simulations?
"Only Linux" ;-) This minimal distro consists of a nfs-root capable kernel on a floppy. There are two flavours raw, or on a filesystem, the first requries a specially treated kernel (by use of rdev) and the latter requires a FS and a bootloader, lilo is know to work. The installation of the distribution is described in Documentation/nfsroot.txt in the kernel source. Happy Hacking! -- Hans Ekbrand
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