I think that the HOWTO`s you are using are the right ones. I'm doing something similar and with the three of them I got it out. The only thing I did to make it a little bit easier was installing a "new" debian on a 500 MB disk I had and to mount this working system in my "NFS-Server" machine therefore I didn't had to do all the file-copying as discribed in the NFS-Root-Client-Mini-HOWTO (I think it was this one). The easiest (and the slowest)way is to boot the client with a floppy and to use rarp herefore you have to edit a file in /etc/ (del servidor) (with man rarp you should find the file's name). For the real NFS-thing it doesn't matter how you resolve the clients IP-number (rarp, bootpd or dhcp) Greetings Lorenz
-----Mensaje original----- De: Brian Servis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: viernes 10 de septiembre de 1999 1:00 Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: recipient list not shown; @[EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: nfs boot off of a kernel on a floppy I just need a few pointers to docs and such. I am wanting to steal my wifes CPU for some number crunching and don't really want to install linux on her machine. I would like to use NFS root booting to accomplish this. My ultimate goal is to have a floppy with an appropriate kernel on it that I can stick in the machine and reboot the machine grabbing everything via nfs off my Linux box. I am reading the NFS-HOWTO, the NFS-Root Mini-HOWTO and the NFS-Root-Client Mini-HOWTO. Any other docs I should look at? I am running slink with a slew of 'apt-get --compile source' packages from potato with kernel 2.2.12. Should I use the kernel NFS server or the userland server. What about the difference between dhcp, bootp and rarp? I don't have a boot rom on the client so I am not sure how that affects anything yet. I have never worked with NFS before so I am totally in the dark. Thanks for any input, -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
