RE: Remote boot?

["Juha Saarinen" <juha_saarinen email msn com>]

Hi Ramon,


> Remove the hard drive from the Notebook, connect it to a
> computer that has had the 5.2 installed on it, and copy one
> hard drive to the other, then reinstall on the Notebook.
>
> Notebook IDE drives have a 44 pin connector for data/power;
> you probably will need an adapter....or use a 50 pin header,
> a hacksaw, glue and make your own.

:-)

Errr.... thanks for the tip, but surely, that isn't The Linux Way?

I've been looking at the Bootprompt-HOWTO, and it mentions that you can boot
to an NFS root system -- I can mount the server's CD ROM on the notebook
with NFS (and MC - comes with a neato network link feature, much simpler to
use than NFS).

Basically, I'd need to fire up PCMCIA card services to get the NIC working
at boot-up, and then get the root file system from the NFS mounted CD-ROM.
Not exactly a QAD solution... has anyone done that? Maybe by adding the NFS
root file system to lilo.conf?

Cheers,

-- Juha