Bug#336518: yaird: document using NFS Root
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:03:37PM +0100, Erik van Konijnenburg wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:02:57PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:52:52 -0700 Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant+bugs@freegeek.org> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:51:11PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > > Currently, MOUNTDIR does not support nfsroot so needs to be
> > > > commented out completely.
> > >
> > > ugh.
> >
> > Well, actually... Looking at FsEntry.pm and other code it might actually
> > be supported somehow - or support is halfway there...
>
> It's recognised as something we can't support. Mounting eg
> 'www.debian.org:/boot' would require name resolution, and there's way
> too much guesswork involved in doing that on the initial boot disk:
> do you want /etc/hosts? LDAP? NIS? DNS? There's other unpleasantness
> involved in trying to interpret nfs partitions from fstab on the boot
> image, but this is the most obvious one.
What about runing host www.debian.org and using the returned IP address ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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