Re: nfs boot off of a kernel on a floppy

1999-10-11 Thread Oki DZ
Brian May wrote: > You have to be careful with /lib, /bin, and /sbin, as files in these > directories are required on boot... Yes, and the important thing is to find the required files on boot (eg: /sbin/mount, /sbin/init, /sbin/getty, etc...) and then put them in the client's respective "system

Re: nfs boot off of a kernel on a floppy

1999-10-06 Thread Brian May
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >If you'd like to save some spaces, you can select several directories to >be exported. Of course, the server and the clients have to be running >the same version of the OS. If I remember correctly, /lib, /bin, /sbin, >/usr can be exported safely. You have

Re: nfs boot off of a kernel on a floppy

1999-10-06 Thread Oki DZ
"Krosigk, Lorenz Von" wrote: ... > 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-

RE: nfs boot off of a kernel on a floppy

1999-10-04 Thread Krosigk, Lorenz Von
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 theref