Re: netboot

Paul de Vrieze <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.installer
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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Paul de Vrieze
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