From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 1 01:18:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA09510 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 01:18:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from viking.ucsalf.ac.uk (viking.ucsalf.ac.uk [192.195.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA09493 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 01:18:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by viking.ucsalf.ac.uk (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m0uaeBq-00036tC; Mon, 1 Jul 96 09:18 BST Message-Id: From: mark@plato.ucsalf.ac.uk (Mark Powell) Subject: Root filesystem on NFS, Linux style ??? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: 1 Jul 1996 09:18:28 +0100 X-Gated-To-News-By: news@ucsalf.ac.uk Xref: viking.ucsalf.ac.uk list.freebsd.chat:601 list.freebsd.questions:6984 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:21437 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Linux allows a kernel to be booted from DOS and then perform it's own RARP to find it's IP and root filesystem over NFS. FreeBSD only seems to allow this with the netboot.(com|rom) program (albeit using BOOTP.) We use this here to allow users to turn their PC into an X terminal be selecting an option from our DOS menu system. We currently do it with Linux. However, I'd prefer to do it with FreeBSD, for obvious reasons. NETNOOT.COM does not work if there is already a network driver loaded, as there is in our case. Is there anything afoot allow the kernel to be configured with some of the netboot.com functionality into the kernel? -- Mark Powell - Senior Network Technician - Room: C806 Computer Services Unit, University College Salford, Salford, UK. Tel: +44 161 745 3376 Fax: +44 161 736 3596 Email: mark@ucsalf.ac.uk finger mark@ucsalf.ac.uk (for PGP key) Home Page