Hi Lynn

At 06:38 04.09.2002, you wrote:
>On Tuesday 27 August 2002 16:32, Erich Titl wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if NFS could be used that early in the boot process.
>
>I don't believe so, until you get a system and permissions up.

sure, but this is a very early stage. you can always load packages later. 
You need a minimum of packages on the CD/floppy which allow network access, 
then you could load the other goodies from the net.

>I believe that most remote images/packages are generally done
>tftp. In fact, bootp and tftp is support in most dhcp servers as an
>option. The Bering image used with OpenBrick uses this.

Actually some X servers were configurable using either tftp or NFS. If one 
could load NFS locally, define the servers IP address and somehow get 
routing for the server going I believe NFS might work...

cheers

Erich


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