From: phenning@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Paul Henning) Subject: Linux on a single disk PC Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 17:10:54 GMT
With this talk of trying to get Linux running from a diskless PC, I was
wondering if someone has some insight to a problem I am having with
Linux on a single floppy.
I have put a compressed 0.99.8a* boot image, libc.so.4.3.3, and some stuff
from /bin and /etc on a 3.5" HD with LILO. Once it comes up, I can NFS
mount fully populated subdirectory trees on top of /bin and /usr. However,
if I try to mount on top of /lib, there are exec errors with libc.so.4 and
everything fails (no statically linked programs).
Why doesn't it like loading libc.so.4 over NFS? Ideally, I would just like
to NFS mount the root filesystem rather than having to mount over major
subdirectories, but I can't figure out which root device to specify when
recompiling the kernel.
* The 'a' suffix is for the ALPHA-diffs being applied
Thanks,
Paul Henning