From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 9 04:05:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA28964 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 04:05:13 -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 EAA28952 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 04:05:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by viking.ucsalf.ac.uk (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m0udab4-00036zC; Tue, 9 Jul 96 12:04 BST Message-Id: From: mark@plato.ucsalf.ac.uk (Mark Powell) Subject: Re: Root filesystem on NFS, Linux style ??? To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: 9 Jul 1996 12:04:45 +0100 X-Gated-To-News-By: news@ucsalf.ac.uk Xref: viking.ucsalf.ac.uk list.freebsd.chat:603 list.freebsd.questions:6986 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22146 Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <4rmfqt$fe2@theatre.pandora.sax.de>, Martin Welk wrote: >In article <4r81kk$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. Yeah, but I currently do this with Linux. The user's can simply select an option from our PC LAN menu system. FreeBSD can't do this, AFAIK. -- Mark Powell - Senior Network Technician - Room: C806 Computer Services Unit, University College Salford, Salford, Manchester, 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