On Wednesday 04 September 2002 02:31, Erich Titl wrote: > 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.
You'll have to do it from initrd then. > >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... X comes in a little later than initrd/package loading though in context to what your thinking with LEAF. You could do this by adding a lrpkg script to add more packages this way later in the boot process. -- ~Lynn Avants aka Guitarlynn guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net http://leaf.sourceforge.net If linux isn't the answer, you've probably got the wrong question! ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
