[parisc-linux] build errors, recipe still not up to date?

willy@thepuffingroup.com willy@thepuffingroup.com
Mon, 27 Mar 2000 18:40:25 -0500


On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 05:07:03PM -0500, Mike Brancato wrote:
> ok, I guess I forgot to ask my real question, how would I create the
> ramdisk image?

Easy: Download one from puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/ramdisks/
Hard: create a non-sparse file, using dd.  create an ext2 filesystem on it.
Mount it via loopback.  copy whatever you want onto it.

> also, say I want nfs, I have two hpux 11.0 machines I could mount from.
> machine A has a raid array (/users/) attached to it, and machine B mounts
> that same array in /users/ via nfs.  can i have the root for the parisc
> linux in /opt/linuxroot/ or something, and have the parisc machine mount
> that thru nfs?  i'm new to nfs.

Linux NFS Root looks for /tftpboot/<ip-address> by default.  I think
there's a way to change it, but I forget how.