This sounds interesting. I'd be interested to see how you got this working since I also couldn't get ltsp running on slackware. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 6:48 PM Subject: got modified zipslack booting over nfs > Hi all. > > Well, it works. I am now able to boot my box without a hard drive over > nfs, using a slightly modified zipslack 9.0. It's kind of cool. > > I think the coolest part is that I can simply flip the power switch on > the client, without worrying about shutting it down first. There is only one little problem, which isn't really a big deal. The > client machine has a 3com 3c905c network card. These cards have 3com's > MBA boot agent in ROM. The problem is, that I can't boot the kernel > off the server using the card's MBA program in rom. > In the server logs, the machine successfully gets its info from dhcp, > and asks tftp to give it the kernel image. Tftp sends the image fine, > but there are 2 more times after that where tftpd sends the image > successfully, after which the client reboots. I wish I could see the > screen on the client to give me a better idea of what's > happening. Maybe when I have a sightling here next time, I'll ask them > to tell me what's going on. > > I did tag the kernel image with mkelf-linux, and ran that through the > imggen utility. > > For now, I'm booting a etherboot rom from a floppy, and that works > fine. > > If there are slackware users interested in getting something like this > going, please let me know, and I could tar up my modified zipslack, and make it available for > download on my server, or I could write up a doc describing how to set > things up, and how to modify a stock zipslack. > > Thanks to all those who recommended ltsp.org. Even though I couldn't > use it because I'm running slackware, it and the various linux howtos > got me started on modifying zipslack, and running it over nfs. > > Greg > > > -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
