Re: boot-floppies 3.0.21 for testing
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 04:58:11PM -0500, Dave Baker wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:50:56PM -0800, Joshua Uziel wrote:
> > * Dave Baker <dave@dsb3.com> [020314 13:42]:
> > > The sun4u kernel-config is missing CONFIG_ROOT_NFS and CONFIG_NFSD_TCP,
> > > both of which are present in sun4cdm. I believe this omission causes a
> > > network install to be impossible on a sun4u machine (though if I'm
> > > mistaken I'd be very happy to hear what I'm doing wrong).
> >
> > Well, it'll break an NFS install, sure... but a network install works
> > fine. I did one on an AX1105 just a little while ago (UltraSPARC-IIe).
> >
>
> I chose my words poorly. My machines generally don't have floppy or cdrom
> installed, so my network install is network (bootp, tftp, nfs) from start
> to end.
Why both with nfs when the tftpboot.img has all you need? Just required
tftp+rarp.
As for the nfs options, I'll get them fixed in the next kernel upload.
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