From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 7 03:49:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA15816 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 03:49:31 -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 DAA15800 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 03:49:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by viking.ucsalf.ac.uk (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m0ucrP2-00036zC; Sun, 7 Jul 96 11:49 BST Message-Id: From: mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de (Martin Welk) Subject: Re: Root filesystem on NFS, Linux style ??? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: 6 Jul 1996 21:46:37 +0200 X-Gated-To-News-By: news@ucsalf.ac.uk Xref: viking.ucsalf.ac.uk list.freebsd.chat:602 list.freebsd.questions:6985 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:21987 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <4r81kk$ovg@plato.ucsalf.ac.uk>, Mark Powell wrote: > 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? I experienced that QEMM screws up when running NETBOOT, so I simply created a boot menu under MS-DOS 6.22 and let people choose it at boot time - no network driver conflicts, no memory manager conflicts. -- /| /| | /| / ,,You know, there's a lot of opportunities, / |/ | artin |/ |/ elk if you're knowing to take them, you know, there's a lot of opportunities, Meissen, Germany, Europe if there aren't you can make them, mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de make or break them!'' (Tennant/Lowe)