If you've got another machine near and have the two networked, you can
have the diskless machine's root filesystem NFS mounted from the other
machine. You will need to have a boot ROM in your network card to do
this. Check out the HOWTOs on diskless workstations and root filesystem
over NFS for more info.
Regards,
Ryan
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Ryan Bedwell (ryanb [at] transera [dot] com)
Design Engineer - TransEra Corp. (http://www.transera.com)
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Jay Prince wrote:
>
> I want to build a "dickless" linux box- aka a Linux box without a disk.
> I intend to use flash for my primary storage device and have some good
> ram capacity.
>
> So, what happens to the swap partition? Can I build an kernal that
> doesn't use swap, or will I have to make a ram disk that is my swap? By
> definition the ram disk has to be smaller than the availible ram area, so
> it seems kinda pointless.....b ut I don't want to be swapping out to
> flash-- it will wear out eventually.
>
> Thanks for any advice--
>
> Jay
>
> --
> Worried about Y2K? You should have bought a Macintosh.
> (It also costs less, is twice as fast, and makes you more productive.)
>
>
