Date: 1 Jul 1996 09:18:28 +0100 From: mark@plato.ucsalf.ac.uk (Mark Powell) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Root filesystem on NFS, Linux style ??? Message-ID: <m0uaeBq-00036sC@viking.ucsalf.ac.uk>
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Hi, Linux allows a kernel to be booted from DOS and then perform it's own RARP to find it's IP and root filesystem over NFS. FreeBSD only seems to allow this with the netboot.(com|rom) program (albeit using BOOTP.) We use this here to allow users to turn their PC into an X terminal be selecting an option from our DOS menu system. We currently do it with Linux. However, I'd prefer to do it with FreeBSD, for obvious reasons. NETNOOT.COM does not work if there is already a network driver loaded, as there is in our case. Is there anything afoot allow the kernel to be configured with some of the netboot.com functionality into the kernel? -- Mark Powell - Senior Network Technician - Room: C806 Computer Services Unit, University College Salford, Salford, UK. Tel: +44 161 745 3376 Fax: +44 161 736 3596 Email: mark@ucsalf.ac.uk finger mark@ucsalf.ac.uk (for PGP key) <A HREF="http://www.ucsalf.ac.uk/~mark/">Home Page</A>
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