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Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Mathias Weigt wrote: |
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> | From this I see, that it is a little bit more complicated than just |
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> | exporting a directory containing a Gentoo root filesystem. I'd |
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> | appreciate if you could explain it more in detail or just point to |
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> some |
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> | good resources for reading. |
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> This is a bit more complicated than things have to be, but it avoids |
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> dealing with the kernel's NFS-root booting and DHCP support, instead |
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> allowing busybox's userland tools to deal with both NFS mounts and DHCP. |
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> There are no erelevant resources I know of, besides perhaps nfsroot.txt |
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> in kernel source Documentation/. |
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this file really "generic" |
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> What exactly do you want more detail about? |
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"They boot to an initrd containing busybox, then proceed to mount |
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necessary bits from a read-only NFS export and other bits via tmpfs |
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where they need to write, then pivot_root into the new NFS root." |
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I'd like like some instructions how to do these things you wrote above. |
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If you don't like to write a huge essay, I don't mind getting it step |
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by step. |
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Mathias |
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