got modified zipslack booting over nfs

[Alex Snow]

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 at romuald.net.eu.org>
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
>
>
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