Re: [cobalt-users] Re: Cobalt Wish List

[Greg Boehnlein <damin@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Greg Boehnlein wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Greg Boehnlein wrote:
> 
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[snip]

It is starting to come back to me now.. I had to hack the OSRCD to 
actually boot with a different kernel image to support more network cards, 
and ran into some snafus. I think I ended up just making a Debian install 
that supported the Bootp/Dhcp/Tftp/NFS support and using that as the 
platform to hack on the OSRCD code, and used the Netboot kernel under 
Vmware to boot and test the restore process.

Since we don't need to have a "pure" OSRCD anymore, it is probably a lot 
easier to build the base on top of Knoppix or a similar CD distribution 
that has totally ass kicking hardware detection. All we need to do is 
create a custom Knoppix CD that boots, detects hardware, runs the servers 
(NFS, DHCP/BOOTP and TFTP) and then exports the "nfsroot-x86" directory.

My brain is turning here! ;)

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