On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 11:31:29AM -0800, David Wright wrote: > > > How did you make a boot floppy that initiates the process? I am just > starting to try to make diskless systems (not to make thin clients, but to > centralize software installation on a computational cluster) and am stuck. > The etherboot tutorial says to > cat floppyload.bin 3c905.lzrom > /dev/fd0 > but the etherboot distribution doesn't contain any "floppyload.bin" (yes, > I did make it) and the ROM images from http://www.rom-o-matic.net end in > .lzdsk not .lzrom, which I'm not sure is the same. .lzdsk files can be put on boot sectors of floppydisks without floppyload.bin cat 3c905.lzdisk > /dev/fd0 should do it. > On a related note, the 2.2.x kernels must be built with an "allow root to > mount over nfs" option to get this to work, but this option appears to be > gone from the 2.4.x kernels. Is it unnecessary, or just hiding? It should appear if you say Y to "IP: kernel level autoconfiguration" in the "TCP/IP networking" section of "Networking options".
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