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Re: diskless booting (NFS root dir)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Murray)
Thu Nov 2 03:37:40 1995
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 16:24:01 +0000 (GMT)
From: Paul Murray <Paul.Murray@wadham.oxford.ac.uk>
Reply-To: Paul.Murray@wadham.oxford.ac.uk
To: Roman Dolejsi <roman@sorry.vse.cz>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951101110549.148A-100000@sorry.vse.cz>
On Wed, 1 Nov 1995, Roman Dolejsi wrote:
> 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).
As another approach, there was an announcement on c.o.l.announce
from a company that made bootroms specifically to book linux workstations,
the subject was: `COMMERCIAL: BootROM for Linux diskless workstations'
Mail to bootrom@datawire.com for more info.
-Paul
<Paul.Murray@Wadham.Oxford.ac.uk>
Disclaimer: I am in no way connected with this company.
