Subject: Re: Completely diskless operation?
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/12/1999 11:28:32
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:53:37 -0800 (PST) Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, David Brownlee wrote:
>
> > Would anyone be willing to write up an FAQ entry for booting an
> > diskless (or at least ffs-less) i386 host? Pretty please? :)
> > Text is fine if you don't want to bother with html.
>
> While you're at it, how about someone generating a kernel config
> and floppy disk image Makefile that we can put in sys/arch/i386/conf
> and distrib/i386/floppies, respectively. That way we can actually
> distribute a disk that will do this.
I just uncommented the
config netbsd root on ? type nfs
and commented out the standard config line in GENERIC to build the
kernel. I'd guess a "boot -a" with a normal kernel would also work.
Simon.