Re: netboot

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 09:06:05PM -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> I've talked with ciaranm about this issue. I proposed a NFSROOT for the 
> netboot to negate the size issue, but there have been issues getting this 
> to work reliably. He said that Debian has tried it on sparc unsuccessfully 
> and Gentoo has gotten it to work on a few test boxes but not correctly on 
> users' boxes. Being ciaranm, he wants us to rewrite the entire thing in 
> bash and use fdisk instead of parted. Apparently, this is his idea of a 
> joke :)

Actually, he's not kidding... :)

I think the best option is still to persue the use of NFSROOT, it's widely
used on other platforms (think Solaris' Jumpstart). Just put some more
effort in that, you're not quitters are you?

/me crawls back under his rock...

      Sven Vermeulen

-- 
  Documentation & PR project leader

  The Gentoo Project   <<< http://www.gentoo.org >>>

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