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Announce: bootnet-nfs -- booting Linux over Network

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Feb 4 16:56:38 1995

Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 19:41:34 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu

X-Mn-Key: announce

From: gero@gkminix.han.de (Gero Kuhlmann)
Subject: Announce: bootnet-nfs -- booting Linux over Network
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Keywords: booting, networking
Organization: ?
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.networking

I just uploaded netboot-nfs.tar.gz to /pub/Linux/Incoming on sunsite.unc.edu.
It should (hopefully) be moved to /pub/Linux/system/Linux-boot soon. A short
description of the package can be found in the following lsm entry. Any
comments are welcome.

gero.


============================================================================
Begin3
Title:          netboot-nfs
Version:        1.0
Entered-date:   29 Jan 1995
Description:    This package allows booting of a diskless computer over a
                network and mounting the root filesystem via NFS. It includes
                the necessary patches for Linux kernel 1.1.83.
Keywords:       booting, boot-rom, nfs, diskless computer
Author:         gero@gkminix.han.de (Gero Kuhlmann)
                jhonan@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Jamie Honan)
Maintained-by:  gero@gkminix.han.de (Gero Kuhlmann)
Primary-site:   sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Linux-boot
                166kB netboot-nfs.tar.gz
                983   netboot-nfs.lsm
Alternate-site: 
Original-site:  sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Linux-boot
                netboot.zoo
Platform:       MSDOS C-compiler and assembler necessary for recompiling boot
                rom when not using a WD80*3 network interface card (for which
                binaries are included)
Copying-policy: GPL
End


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