[1301] in linux-net channel archive
diskless booting (NFS root dir)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roman Dolejsi)
Wed Nov 1 08:37:09 1995
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 11:29:42 +0200 (GMT+0200)
From: Roman Dolejsi <roman@sorry.vse.cz>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Hi *,
My situation:
I'm a system administrator on my university and here we have many PCs
connected to the Netware/WinNT fileservers. We've also many Unix servers
and among them is also Linux server for students.
Project:
I would like to make an optional Linux X-server on diskless PC. Our PCs
are booted from bootroms by RPL service from novells and I wanna this:
Through MS-DOS booting process I include loading of biosintv.sys and when
users will be in main menu they can then start Linux X-server. Batch file
will be started and with a Loadlin I can load and run linux kernel from
Netware disks.
Problem:
When Linux is booted I need to make a NFS connection to my main Linux
box and mount root directory directly from kernel via NFS. Don't know how
to do that..
Any suggestions ? Thanx
Roman
P.S.: ramdisk could be accepted but I need to load its contents from
Netware disk and I think it's problem (I have FULLY diskless stations).
