I just need a few pointers to docs and such. I am wanting to steal my wifes CPU for some number crunching and don't really want to install linux on her machine. I would like to use NFS root booting to accomplish this. My ultimate goal is to have a floppy with an appropriate kernel on it that I can stick in the machine and reboot the machine grabbing everything via nfs off my Linux box. I am reading the NFS-HOWTO, the NFS-Root Mini-HOWTO and the NFS-Root-Client Mini-HOWTO. Any other docs I should look at?
I am running slink with a slew of 'apt-get --compile source' packages from potato with kernel 2.2.12. Should I use the kernel NFS server or the userland server. What about the difference between dhcp, bootp and rarp? I don't have a boot rom on the client so I am not sure how that affects anything yet. I have never worked with NFS before so I am totally in the dark. Thanks for any input, -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------