Re: nfs root mount problem

2001-12-25 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
well, I alreadyt made a floppy but now im starting from pure dos using .com programs. In fact when I tried to copy it to the floopy i had the similar problems as u describe, but I compiled the boot1a.bin program so I could copy it to the floppy with the cat utility. I cant remember how I did

Re: nfs root mount problem

2001-12-22 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 11:31:29AM -0800, David Wright wrote: > > > How did you make a boot floppy that initiates the process? I am just > starting to try to make diskless systems (not to make thin clients, but to > centralize software installation on a computational cluster) and am stuck. > T

Re: nfs root mount problem

2001-12-21 Thread David Wright
How did you make a boot floppy that initiates the process? I am just starting to try to make diskless systems (not to make thin clients, but to centralize software installation on a computational cluster) and am stuck. The etherboot tutorial says to cat floppyload.bin 3c905.lzrom > /dev/fd0

Re: nfs root mount problem

2001-12-20 Thread Titty Jacob
Hi, Try some readymade kernels form www.ltsp.org. I had more or less the similar problem with custom kernels. ltsp kernels worked fine. Tt On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 12:14:06AM +, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: > > Hi again. My other problem is building a diskless system. I followed all > the ins

nfs root mount problem

2001-12-20 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
Hi again. My other problem is building a diskless system. I followed all the instructions in the diskless how to, and the etherboot help, but it seems I cant overcome this detail. My network card is an isa wd 8013. I compiled the module in the kernel. The diskless computer does the download of the