Re: Intent to resurrect nfsroot and package etherboot

[Edward Betts <edward@hairnet.demon.co.uk>]

On Thu, 03 Sep, 1998, Brian Bassett wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've recently been playing around with a diskless workstation working.
> I've found that the nfsboot package currently sitting in project/orphaned
> helps this rather nicely.  I've been in contact with Joost and he's given
> me his blessing to resurrect this package back into main.
> 
> Additionally, I've been using etherboot to create ROM images for booting my
> workstation.  It's a neat utility that I found on sunsite.  Works
> beautifully for creating netbootable floppy images also.
> 
> Comments?  Suggestions?

Go for it, sounds like fun, I have a machine that is Win95 I would like to
boot as a linux box every so often, I could treat it like a diskless
workstation, just use a boot disk

-- 
Edward Betts