Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Feb 2000 19:25:31 -0500 | From | Wakko Warner <> | Subject | Re: IP autoconfig doesn't work in 2.3.46 |
| |
> > > Personally, for diskless machines which boots the kernel directly (no lilo, > > > no syslinux, etc) this is a good thing. (Or atleast I believe so) I've > > > never used ip autoconfig using arp except once where I had a digiport server > > > that would do this but not bootp. Anyway, I atleast hope that bootp > > > autoconfig isn't removed from the kernel for this reason. > > > > Anywhere that a kernel image exists, an initrd image can exist. > > Except for very low memory diskless machines. > > sizeof(rs support + initrd support + ramdisk size) > sizeof(kernel_bootp)
Exactly my point. For me to make such a disk that I currently make, I basically:
make oldconfig make zImage modules kmodinst <dir for modules> This is a small sh script I wrote from the modules_install target in the Makefile cp System.map /<dir>/boot/System.map-<kver> cp arch/i386/boot/zImage /<dir>/boot/vmlinuz-<kver> change to that boot dir rdev <kernel> /dev/nfs rootflags <kernel> 0
foreach floppy I want to create, I cp <kernel> /dev/fd0
With initrd support? Putting kernel on there would require (on a new floppy, above is a non issue). mkfs /dev/fd0 mount it cp <file list> /floppy cp <kernel> /floppy lilo -C /floppy
If I want to find out what kernel I'm running (currently) less -f /dev/fd0 then hit space.
New way. mount it less -f <kernel> unmount it
Does put a considerable overhead to do this. Or to me it does. I use this senerio to load windoze machines. It works for me. Some times I use them on low memory machines. Most of the time, I'll compile the kernel at home (compare a dual pII450 [home] to a dual p5-233mmx [work]. Difference including download is considerably lower on the home box). I have a nice little tar file made up that'll untar in the base dir with the modules, and kernel where I want it.
-- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |