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RE: Linux Development Request


  • Subject: RE: Linux Development Request
  • From: UKHA
  • Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 18:37:00 +0000

Tony,

>
>I now have a full redhat linux distro booting on a diskless mobo (128mb
>ram)

Do you really mean a FULL redhat linux distro? That would take a week and
a half to boot wouldn;t it...

I'd be interested in how you went about doing this, as I intend to try for
another
project I'm working on.

>over the network from a Windows XP PC...
>And it's completely silent as there is no hdd and no fans

Which mobo etc are you using?


>The only issue is that the ramdisk image holds the ip address of the
nfs
>server, and I need to do this remotely from the xp pc, so the ramdisk
image
>can be used by anyone regardless of their ip addresses...
>
>Any pxe/tftp guru's out there?
>

take a look at the DHCP section here : <a href="http://logout.sh/computers/linux/netboot/";>http://logout.sh/computers/linux/netboot/</a>

Andy







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