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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!keele!yama.mcc.ac.uk!viking.ucsalf.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: mark@plato.ucsalf.ac.uk (Mark Powell) Newsgroups: list.freebsd.chat,list.freebsd.questions,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Root filesystem on NFS, Linux style ??? Date: 9 Jul 1996 12:04:45 +0100 Organization: Computer Services Unit, University College Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK Lines: 44 Message-ID: <4rtecd$fi9@plato.ucsalf.ac.uk> References: <4r81kk$ovg@plato.ucsalf.ac.uk> <4rmfqt$fe2@theatre.pandora.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plato.ucsalf.ac.uk In article <4rmfqt$fe2@theatre.pandora.sax.de>, Martin Welk <mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de> wrote: >In article <4r81kk$ovg@plato.ucsalf.ac.uk>, >Mark Powell <mark@plato.ucsalf.ac.uk> wrote: > >> Linux allows a kernel to be booted from DOS and then perform it's own RARP >>to find it's IP and root filesystem over NFS. FreeBSD only seems to allow this >>with the netboot.(com|rom) program (albeit using BOOTP.) We use this here to >>allow users to turn their PC into an X terminal be selecting an option from >>our DOS menu system. We currently do it with Linux. However, I'd prefer to >>do it with FreeBSD, for obvious reasons. NETNOOT.COM does not work >>if there is already a network driver loaded, as there is in our case. >>Is there anything afoot allow the kernel to be configured with some of >>the netboot.com functionality into the kernel? > >I experienced that QEMM screws up when running NETBOOT, so I simply >created a boot menu under MS-DOS 6.22 and let people choose it at >boot time - no network driver conflicts, no memory manager conflicts. Yeah, but I currently do this with Linux. The user's can simply select an option from our PC LAN menu system. FreeBSD can't do this, AFAIK. -- Mark Powell - Senior Network Technician - Room: C806 Computer Services Unit, University College Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK. Tel: +44 161 745 3376 Fax: +44 161 736 3596 Email: mark@ucsalf.ac.uk finger mark@ucsalf.ac.uk (for PGP key) <A HREF="http://www.ucsalf.ac.uk/~mark/">Home Page</A>