Mike At 04:06 06.11.2002, you wrote:
I am exposed to a similar problem, there might be a simple solution which I havent tried yet.Hi, i've been using lrp for years now, and a few months ago began running dachstein floppy. I've come to the point where i have about 40bytes of floppy space left!Here's my question: is it at all possible to boot over the network (using a tftp server) without a dhcp or bootp server running? is there any way to program the nic's rom (or use a minimal floppy boot disk) to set all the info normally given by the dhcp/bootp server?
1) build a minimal distribution on a floppy including ssh but without most of the other packages.
2) boot from that floppy
3) bring up your internal network card in an early stage, maybe switching first to init level 1 and fetch the rest of the packages from a server using scp (using public key authentication).
4) install the fetched packages on your system using lrpkg -I, then delete them to free that space.
5) If necessary switch to level 2 as usual and start the rest
Obviously you need a server on the internal net.
As I said, I have not tested this yet but in the absence of a ADM for my laptop gateway (no NIC roms) this might be the solution in my case.
HTH
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