Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 19 Feb 2000 07:38:21 -0500 | | From | Jeff Garzik <> | | Subject | Re: IP autoconfig doesn't work in 2.3.46 |
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Wakko Warner wrote: > Great. Now instead of just catting my kernel to a floppy and it just > 'works', I'll have to make a boot disk with ext2 or minix on it and figure > out what files out of what packages I need just to query a bootp server. > ATM, I don't know how to leave initrd (I never looked)
Oh wah... look at mkinitrd and Documentation/initrd.txt
You can make a script for this just like you can make a script for other stuff. Once done the task is no different from the standard 'make install' step for the kernel build.
> 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.
Jeff
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