Re: netboot
Paul de Vrieze <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.gentoo.installer |
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On Tuesday 28 December 2004 18:14, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > > > 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. What about ramfs/tmpfs as root and downloading whatever is needed to that. It could be nfs, but just as well be ftp or whatever. (Of course that is still not a solution low memory systems) Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net