Re: netboot

Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> 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?

I'm well aware that it wasn't a joke on his part, but the point is that parted 
works on more architectures than fdisk does. I'm attempting to get sparc 
netboot/nfsroot working on my sparc32 right now.

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Andrew Gaffney
Gentoo Linux Developer
Installer Project