On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 01:27:52PM +0100, Rob van der Heij wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having some trouble getting the things in place to install via > the nfsroot and I can understand this would be causing others some > trouble as well. Getting yet another LPAR carved out is not easy > to justify and not everyone has the workstation close enough to the > mainframe that you can run the nfsroot there. > On VM you could fairly easy get two virtual machines and run the > nfs server in one of them, but I would need to configure the extra > network interfaces while the /linuxrc runs so that I don't need also > extra IP addresses. > > Would it not be easier to load the small system on an extra disk > by untarring rather than via NFS ? Sure, would be another option to install things from instead of the NFS-root. If you send in patches to our current "linuxrc", I'll be glad to add them. Otherwise I'll put this on the TODO list. cu, Florian La Roche
