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Re: Install debian on a diskless SparcStation (nfsroot)



On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 05:11:47AM +0100, Jan Houstek wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I found some old pizzaboxes (mostly SparcStation 5) in our department. I'd
> like to use them as public X-terminals. I installed woody on one of the
> machines.
> 
> Now I'd like to move the instalation to a NFS server because disks in the
> boxes are rather noisy. But I have no idea how to setup booting from
> NFSroot. Is there something in the debian-sparc distribution which I can
> use or do I have to compile a new kernel?
> 
> Thanks for your help, I'm quite e newbie in this NFS stuff.

Go figure, the Debian sparc install docs tell you exactly how to do this
:)

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