SLUG Oracle, I trying to boot a number of diskless Debian machines off a central dhcp/bootp/nfs server, the plan is something similar to the Linux terminal server project, but running Debian on the clients rather than RedHat. Following the approach used by the LTS project, the machines mount the root file system read-only, and I want to create a small RAM disk and mount it under /tmp early on in the init sequence, to host the device nodes, temporary files etc. Creating the RAM disk is no problem, but I've found that if I try and create the directory structure under /tmp before /proc is mounted, nothing happens i.e. no directories or device nodes are created. If I do it after /proc is mounted, all seems to be well. Is there a reason for this?? Could someone enlighten me?? Also, does anyone have an suggestions for the minimal device nodes required to run a linux machine?? At present I keep getting an "Unable to open initial console" type message. I'd like for these machines to allow rsh/rlogin access as well as support a login session at the keyboard (when one is plugged in), I don't plan on running X. Might also be nice at some point in the future to have a login console on the serial line... just for kicks. Any help or suggestions appreciated, Shaun -- Shaun Cloherty Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering University of New South Wales -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
