On Wed, Sep 15, Dave Dodge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:25:31PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > > root on nfs > > root on iscsi > > There are probably some other networked options. For example root > on nbd has been tried here: > > http://borderworlds.dk/projects/#nr > > How about copying root into a ramdisk from an ftp/tftp/http server? > Someone in a thin-client environment might try something like that. Then you need a wget/curl like tool to grab it. That looks like a custom solution. > Also: root on encrypted loop. There are several basic encryption > options, including (I think) whose module you use. There are lots of > ways the key might be acquired: interactively from keyboard, floppy, > USB storage, smart card, and so on. None of this is currently supported by our mkinitrd/mkinitramfs. But sure, all that can be added to such a project. -- USB is for mice, FireWire is for men! sUse lINUX ag, n�NBERG
