Re: nfs-booting with a null-modem cable ?
Alexandre Lebrun <lebrun@hermes.kawo1.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
> I'd like to set up my PPro to enable my 486 to boot nfs.
> looking at mknfsroot, this should be possible and perhaps easy with eth
> cards.
If you're talking about the 486 booting from an nfs mounted root on
your PPro machine, I think you may need an ethernet card with special
boot ROMs. Though I'm no expert in this area, so I could be wrong.
If you're just talking about having a small hard drive in the 486 and
nfs mounting stuff after it comes up, then that's easy, you can do
that with the modem cable, or with ethernet. With the modem cable
approach, you'll need ppp, and will be limited to about 10k/s.
You should browse the HOWTO index. There's a HOWTO on PPP, and one (I
think) on net booting. You can reach the HOWTO index from any Debian
web site mirror (www.debian.org).
--
Rob
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