Re: UDB -> new kernel
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 20:43:13 -0700 (PDT), John Chapman <john@hannes.ndip.eskimo.net> wrote:
>If your sda1 is still intact, and still has a usable MILO on it, you might
>try something similar; it avoids the horrors of floppy disks.
Ahhh...luxury. I don't have a hard drive of any sort on my Multia, so
I've been running diskless with NFS, loading the kernel from a floppy.
This worked in Red Hat, until the machine that it was being served from
had to be scrapped. Now I have a new NFS host, and I wanted to install
Debian. The boot floppy seems to work (much more convenient then
R*d H*t IMHO).
Perhaps NFS isn't quite working? Or is it just me?
I've tried to extract the base2_1.tar.gz directly on the NFS server as
well as via the boot floppies. In the latter case, I get a read error on
the tar.gz file; in the former case, there's no error but it dies horribly
later.
In any case, I'll now assume that Debian really does work on it, and just
try kicking it harder. ;-)
It worked with R*d H*t fairly well if you set the NFS cache timeouts
to huge values. Since the root filesystem isn't shared (it even has
its own ethernet cable to the NFS server) it works pretty well.
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