Re: diskless systems
I do not think you can boot from a serial port, the BIOS does not support
it. Used ISA ethernet cards are about $10 each and if you get the coax
type (10Base2) your total wiring cost is probably another $10 for a piece
of coax, two T-connectors and two terminators. Besides, You do NOT want to
do NFS and X over a serial port ... it will be DOG slow. A good compromise
might be booting from floppy, then mount the remote root filesystem and
chroot to it.
I have never done this, mind you, but wouldn't it be possible to:
mount master-host:/ /mnt
chroot /mnt
?????
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 John_Gay@3com.com wrote:
> fair enough, RTFM. I hadn't thought to look in the mini-HOWTO's. This was
> kinda sparse, but I could probably get it to work. Has anyone had any
> experience setting up diskless systems over serial ports? I know how to
> configure the serial port so I can use hyperterm from WindowsNT, but can
> this be done for a diskless system as well? This would save me a lot of
> hassle rather than using ethernet. I am still new to this system and am
> still surprised by how much help is available for this system. Thank again
> for all your assistance.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John Gay
>
>
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