Re: Intent to package: nfsroot
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Antoine Brenner wrote:
>
> Hi,
> There is an orphaned package called nfsroot-0.5.1 in
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/project/orphaned/
>
> I could tweak it to run with newer releases (glibc, kernel 2.2.x) of
> Debian.
As the old maintainer of this package, I would like to thanke you
warmly for this! Also, If you have any questions or whatever,
I'd be very glad to help.
(However, at the moment I'm on holiday in Budapest, so I'm not really fast
with responding now...)
Thanks!
> I am proposing to take the maintenance of this package.
>
>
> Here is the control file:
> ---
> brenner:~/temp/nfsroot-0.5/debian> cat control
> Source: nfsroot
> Section: net
> Priority: optional
> Maintainer: joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>
> Standards-Version: 0.0
>
> Package: nfsroot
> Architecture: any
> Depends: netstd, ${shlibs:Depends}
> Description: Set up server to allow nfsroot clients to boot.
> 60min after you installed this package on your server, you can:
> .
> Insert a nfsrootbootfloppy (create one with "mknfsrootboot")
> in any computer on your local network that has it's networkcard
> configured (running whatever OS), press "RESET", and hey presto,
> it's running LINUX!
> (and is configured to do just as much as your server, by default).
> .
> This package allows you to have most /etc files on the clients the
> same as the server, and some different. You'll need 30k disk space
> per potential client, and it's got a daemon that probes the network
> for hw adresses, and puts them in /etc/bootpd, and makes /tftpboot
> entries (excluding hosts in /etc/nfsroot/ignorehosts).
>
> brenner:~/temp/nfsroot-0.5/debian>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Antoine Brenner
>
> ---
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> --- Antoine Brenner, brenner@via.ecp.fr --- http://www.via.ecp.fr/~brenner
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