Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Dec 1999 18:27:55 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: boot-time DHCP |
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On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 06:15:16PM +0100, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> writes: > > > Doing it by a small user mode program in a initrd is much more sane. > > Near all modern distributions rely on initrd now anyways. > > This is not where this is really interesting. Remote booting is > interesting for embedded systems where you have no harddisk and > perhaps not even a floppy disk.
You need to load the kernel from somewhere. If you can load the kernel you can load a initrd too.
-Andi
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