Bruce: > 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.
From: Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I presume that this will only work if you're using NFS over something > like ethernet (not that nfs would be really tolerable over a 115K PPP > serial port connection anyway). Oops. Right - he wants to use PPP. Sorry, my answer _was_ specific to Ethernet. You'd need to use INITRD. That's a good deal harder, but do-able. You would have to load a small root filesystem, start up PPPD, mount the new root filesystem, and then exit the initrd. See /usr/src/linux/Docuemntation/initrd.txt . Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .