Re: LNX-BBC-NET (bbc 2.1 hacked into a netboot) - network rescue floppy

Steven L. Fountain writes:

> Ok, as useful as I have found BBC 2.1, I was wondering why there was no
> network booting mechanism of the same image. So I have rsync'd all of the
> files into a 192 meg initrd (for straight forward customization) which
> boots fine with a recent DHCP server and a TFTP server.
> 
> This is LNX-BBC-NET 2.1 and you can get it from the following two links:
>       theinfo http://dreamscape.org/code/lnx-bbc-net.txt
>       bootdir http://dreamscape.org/lnx-bbc-net.tgz
> 
> Some machines don't have CD's, but this is a very useful distribution
> method too. Enjoy.

Hey, that's cool.  Do you think we can make it netboot using cloop (so
it will be back down to 50 MB instead of 192 MB or so)?  This would
help because it would be faster to load across the network, would work
on machines with less RAM, and could potentially be included as a
feature of the existing LNX-BBC CD.

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