Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 15 May 1996 09:40:20 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Bartlomiej Czardybon <> | Subject | Re: Problem with RootNFS |
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On Tue, 14 May 1996, Jacek Zapala wrote:
> On Mon, 13 May 1996, Bartlomiej Czardybon wrote: > > > is it possible to have swapfile mounted on rootnfs ? How to ? Any HOWTO ? > > > > I have seen such a patch in some (old!) package for booting from a bootrom. > Here is a lsm: > Begin3 > Title: netboot-nfs > Version: 1.2 > Entered-date: 04 Mar 1995 > Description: This package allows booting of a diskless computer over a > network, mounting the root filesystem via NFS and using a > swap file on a NFS filesystem. It includes the necessary > patches for Linux kernel 1.1.92, and tools to boot a disk- > less computer. > Keywords: booting, boot-rom, swap, root-fs, nfs, diskless > Author: gero@gkminix.han.de (Gero Kuhlmann) > jhonan@jolt.mpx.com.au (Jamie Honan) > Maintained-by: gero@gkminix.han.de (Gero Kuhlmann) > Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Linux-boot > 189kB netboot-nfs.tar.gz > 1082 netboot-nfs.lsm > Alternate-site: > Original-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Linux-boot > netboot.zoo > Platform: MSDOS C-compiler and assembler necessary for recompiling boot > rom when not using a WD80*3 network interface card (for which > binaries are included) > Copying-policy: GPL > End > > > Bye, > > Jacek Dzieki Jacek. But tell me, why isn't it in mainstream kernel ? If it is good. Well: if rootnfs in 1.3.100 doesnot support swap on nfs, and above patches suppport it, so tell me why not to use these patches as part of distribution kernel ?
Bartlomiej Czardybon Silesian Technical University - Faculty of Computer Science
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