Re: NFS as root

1997-10-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > Can you explain why it doesn't work? > > cause I'm an incompetent, lazy and useless maintainer, that's why. > > Or, put it differently, because the /tftpboot/$IP/lib directories > are filled with libc5 versions of the libraries only, not the libc6

Re: NFS as root

1997-10-16 Thread joost witteveen
> On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > > Note, that for hamm, the "not-perfectness" is somewhat extreme: it > > doesn't work at all, however hard you try. > > Can you explain why it doesn't work? cause I'm an incompetent, lazy and useless maintainer, that's why. Or, put it different

Re: NFS as root

1997-10-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > Note, that for hamm, the "not-perfectness" is somewhat extreme: it > doesn't work at all, however hard you try. Can you explain why it doesn't work? I think I haven't used my diskless computer since I upgraded the nfsroot package to the current hamm v

Re: NFS as root

1997-10-15 Thread joost witteveen
> On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I was wondering on how to get a machine with no HD to mount its root via nfs > > on another running machine, the only documentation I have found is on how to > > create a nfsroot floppy which boots the kernel for the machine. The problem > > is

Re: NFS as root

1997-10-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was wondering on how to get a machine with no HD to mount its root via nfs > on another running machine, the only documentation I have found is on how to > create a nfsroot floppy which boots the kernel for the machine. The problem > is once its boo

NFS as root

1997-10-15 Thread kestrel
I was wondering on how to get a machine with no HD to mount its root via nfs on another running machine, the only documentation I have found is on how to create a nfsroot floppy which boots the kernel for the machine. The problem is once its booted I get errors from INIT about initial console. Any