Re: nfs-booting with a null-modem cable ?
Alexandre Lebrun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to set up my PPro to enable my 486 to boot nfs. looking at mknfsroot, this should be possible and perhaps easy with eth cards. If you're talking about the 486 booting from an nfs mounted root on your PPro machine, I think you may need an ethernet card with special boot ROMs. Though I'm no expert in this area, so I could be wrong. If you're just talking about having a small hard drive in the 486 and nfs mounting stuff after it comes up, then that's easy, you can do that with the modem cable, or with ethernet. With the modem cable approach, you'll need ppp, and will be limited to about 10k/s. You should browse the HOWTO index. There's a HOWTO on PPP, and one (I think) on net booting. You can reach the HOWTO index from any Debian web site mirror (www.debian.org). -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: nfs-booting with a null-modem cable ?
From: Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you're talking about the 486 booting from an nfs mounted root on your PPro machine, I think you may need an ethernet card with special boot ROMs. Not nearly so difficult, he can use a floppy drive. You can load the kernel from floppy and have it mount an NFS root. SysLinux would be best for this. On a Debian system: Put a formatted floppy in the first floppy drive. Unzip /usr/lib/syslinux/img1440.gz to the raw floppy, /dev/fd0. Mount the floppy as an MSDOS filesystem, and copy the kernel on to it. Edit SYSLINUX.CFG to add the NFS root parameters to the boot command line. See the file /usr/src/linux/Documentation/nfsroot.txt, you will have to install the kernel-source package if you have not done so. That should work fine. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: nfs-booting with a null-modem cable ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: Not nearly so difficult, he can use a floppy drive. You can load the kernel from floppy and have it mount an NFS root. SysLinux would be best for this. I presume that this will only work if you're using NFS over something like ethernet (not that nfs would be really tolerable over a 115K PPP serial port connection anyway). Thanks -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: nfs-booting with a null-modem cable ?
Bruce: Not nearly so difficult, he can use a floppy drive. You can load the kernel from floppy and have it mount an NFS root. SysLinux would be best for this. From: Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] I presume that this will only work if you're using NFS over something like ethernet (not that nfs would be really tolerable over a 115K PPP serial port connection anyway). Oops. Right - he wants to use PPP. Sorry, my answer _was_ specific to Ethernet. You'd need to use INITRD. That's a good deal harder, but do-able. You would have to load a small root filesystem, start up PPPD, mount the new root filesystem, and then exit the initrd. See /usr/src/linux/Docuemntation/initrd.txt . Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: nfs-booting with a null-modem cable ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 27 May 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: Oops. Right - he wants to use PPP. Sorry, my answer _was_ specific to Ethernet. You'd need to use INITRD. That's a good deal harder, but do-able. You would have to load a small root filesystem, start up PPPD, mount the new root filesystem, and then exit the initrd. See /usr/src/linux/Docuemntation/initrd.txt . Sven Rudolph did an awful good job on the Boot/Root/Rescue Disks. Starting from the Debian Rescue disk the mentioned task should not take much work. It is possible to make the ramdisk bigger so that a full libc can be used, and a lot of stuff that is needed for installation only could be thrown away to make room for pppd etc. Also a custom kernel with the serial driver compiled in might save some bytes (with the side effect that booting probably also will be faster because less devices are probed) Nils - -- \ /| Nils Rennebarth --* WINDOWS 42 *-- | Schillerstr. 61 / \| 37083 Göttingen | ++49-551-71626 Micro$oft's final answer | http://www.nus.de/~nils -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM4wJJlptA0IhBm0NAQH9TAL/UOqEnGhcxphEjDfrgD8w4mj5DCjJj2eq m5gz8gywEuJsGUk9hr5CtsyFk3ESML8K3kopjNhYE7drjrOf8zpKLuWsCVYNRMNe nSj5IeJWhOb0eY90wblsEVmpplSFLNQo =gcv0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
nfs-booting with a null-modem cable ?
I'd like to set up my PPro to enable my 486 to boot nfs. looking at mknfsroot, this should be possible and perhaps easy with eth cards. But I only have a null-modem cable. Is it still possible ? with what packages? Other possibilities would be: -getting 2 more netcards -installing linux on a small partition (I would not need X). But it's probably more fun the complicated way. other: I could get an 2nd IP address or use masquerading. I think a 2nd IP is easier, and we still have some on the subnet. Any comments ? Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
