I'm still considering what the best option is to build a diskless Debian system that can replace my current Linksys firewall [1]. I've tried booting from PXE and using NFS for the rest of the system. While this approach works, I don't like the idea that if the NFS server goes down, the firewall also doesn't work anymore.
So I thought, what if I were to use a ramdisk, loaded from an initrd image. Isn't that how those firewalls from cdrom work? Just like now, the system boots from PXE and loads the initrd image. Only instead of switching to the NFS mountpoint, the initrd image is bigger and loads the system in RAM. Not really revolutionary perhaps, but I can't seem to find much available documentation. So has anyone else tried this approach? [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/08/msg00479.html -- Frank Hart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
