On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Rob wrote: > I have a spare 486 that I would like to utilise in some form for debian. > Unfortunatly, it has no hard disc, although it does have a network card. > The rest of the network consists of an NT4 server, two W95 workstations, > and another debain (hamm) box, which currently talks to the others via > basic TCP/IP services (ftp etc), and samba. > > Is there a simple way of creating a boot floppy that will get enough off > the ground to load the rest of linux off one or other of the other systems > (presumably the other debian box!) or do I have to scrounge another hard > disc..
Take a look at the nfsroot package. It is very outdated at the moment (doesn't know about libc6), but once you have taken a good look at the scripts you'll get the general idea and will be able to adopt them to your needs. The nfsroot package creates a very small root dir for the client. /bin, /lib, /usr, /home etc. are mounted on top of it. For /etc is has a hack, because the /etc directory should not be the same for all computers. The same goes for /tmp and /var, but AFAIK the package does nothing with them so you'll have to think of a way to handle them yourself. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .