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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 t
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
[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 nf
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 moun
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 a
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 sma
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