I assume that you have a configuration in which following setup is used Server: a machine which has exported a NFS share Client : a machine which has client booting up the kernel and not much space . it needs to load the NFS at the boot time as it's root file system . farnkly this configuration would not work due to following problem 1. the client booting up would already be having a root file system and for changing the root file system you would need to have all the system files in place which this client system was using . that too is done as root and hence is very very risky . 2 you can not umount a file system in use as this would lead to in consistent system best solution if you want to use NFS as a root file system is to use TFTPBOOT to throw a NBI(Network Bootable Image) kernel image and then loading the file system as done in thin clients( refer LTSP.org or PXE boot) . I hope this helps , Cheers Abhishek Kumar On 7/18/05, Jim Cromie <jcromie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Rahul T wrote: > > > hi all, > > i am trying to install nfsroot on my machine and bootup other machine. > > both are debian 2.6.10 > > i have compiled the client machine with nfs support. > > however i am stuck at the point of creating a rootfilesystem. > > > > i hv googled but to vain. plz direct me. > > > > > > > youre very short on details/explanations. > Ive heard of compiling a kernel, program, package, etc, > but never a client machine (I thought you bought those) > > try this link > http://www.cheapnet.net/~mike/soekris/ > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
