Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Announce: initrd-tftp 0.1 | Date | Sat, 08 Jan 2000 20:56:34 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> said:
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> Maybe I explained badly what it does and what it's for. It's not for > systems which can load a RAM disk or initrd normally. It's for systems > which don't have the ability to load a ramdisk from a disk (because there > isn't one), but do have the ability to load and execute a block of code > (the kernel) from the network.
Funny, that is how network booting for installing a SPARC has worked for ages. Never tried a PC, as they can't boot over the network out of the box, but I'd be very surprised if it didn't work exactly the same way from kernel 1.<something> on. -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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