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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: Booting from NT ?
To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert)
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 07:18:44 +0200 (MET DST)
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> > uh ? booting the kernel obviously works because i have done it reading
> > from a CD or the network -- and a readonly root also seems to work,
> > because I have been using diskless with a readonly root for a long time.
> 
> Right.  Now try to make the /var/run/pid files...

mfs and vnconfig are your friend there. Performance varies depending on
what you have (lots of ram, swap on local partition/file on supported
fs type/swap over nfs) of course...

	cheers
	luigi

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