Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 07 Mar 2003 08:15:20 +0100 | From | (Michael Mueller) | Subject | Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module. |
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Hi Alan,
you wrote: > > I'd prefer not to have to have thousands of special programs around > > just to be able to boot my machines, especially when it was all in- > > kernel up until this point. > > > > klibc yes, dietlibc with random other garbage in some random filesystem > > which'd need maintaining - no thanks. > > You can build the dhcp client with glibc static into your initrd. Its hardly > magic or special programs or random garbage, and last time I counted it came > to one program. Dunno what the other 999 utilities your dhcp needs are ?
Sorry, but I must join Russel here. I have atleast one machine which has a bootloader able to load exactly one file only. There is currently no way to load an initrd. It would need to implement the whole (BOOTP+)TFTP stuff again, just to get the initrd. So I was quite happy linux 2.4 still knows about mounting a NFS root filesystem without user-space help.
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