Re: nfs-booting with a null-modem cable ?

[Nils Rennebarth <nils@nus.de>]

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On Tue, 27 May 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
>Oops. Right - he wants to use PPP. Sorry, my answer _was_ specific to
>Ethernet.
>
>You'd need to use INITRD. That's a good deal harder, but do-able. You would
>have to load a small root filesystem, start up PPPD, mount the new root
>filesystem, and then exit the initrd. See
>/usr/src/linux/Docuemntation/initrd.txt .
Sven Rudolph did an awful good job on the Boot/Root/Rescue Disks.

Starting from the Debian Rescue disk the mentioned task should not take
much work. It is possible to make the ramdisk bigger so that a full libc
can be used, and a lot of stuff that is needed for installation only could
be thrown away to make room for pppd etc. Also a custom kernel with the
serial driver compiled in might save some bytes (with the side effect that
booting probably also will be faster because less devices are probed)

Nils

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