discuss: NFS-Root mini-howto
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Re: NFS-Root mini-howto
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Date:
5 Feb 2002 22:05:21 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.BSO.4.33.0202051704580.3857-100000@resin.csoft.net>
you should definately Just Add to it, because from what Ive seen, it
sorely needs it.
G
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, David Smith wrote:
>Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 22:01:42 +0000
>From: David Smith ####@####.####
>To: ####@####.####
>Subject: Re: NFS-Root mini-howto
>
>On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 07:28:02AM -0800, Greg Roelofs wrote:
>> Keep in mind that I'm in the middle of a one-time update (~10 days ago,
>> remember?). If Cicero could wait a few more hours, I should be finished
>> with what I was doing, and he's welcome to take it from there.
>
>Sort of vaguely on-topic...
>
>After a recent success (!) and some prodding by my fellow LUG members, I'm
>thinking of writing a (mini-)HOWTO on getting a Linux machine to boot from
>network (with Etherboot), and then run entirely standalone in ramdisk.
>Sort of a 'Network-Boot-Ramdisk-Root-HOWTO'. I already have the shell of
>the document, since I wrote a relatively lengthy (for a mailing list)
>description of what I did, so I'm part way there.
>
>I realise that there is a significant amount of overlap between this and
>some other documentation (in fact, my current doc references some other
>docs). However, not all the documentation is that relevant, and I had to
>go searching for some stuff, which was not obvious from the existing HOWTOs.
>Also, I encountered some issues which are not currently covered.
>
>So, basically, I'm asking for opinions. Should I:
>
> o Go ahead and write a new HOWTO
>
> o Write some stuff to be inserted into an existing HOWTO (I guess
> that the 'Network Boot and Exotic Root HOWTO' would be the obvious
> recipient here)
>
> o Forget the idea completely
>
>So, what do people think?
>
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