From: greg@serveme.chi.il.us (Gregory Gulik) Subject: Re: NFS Mounted as root??? Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 04:31:45 GMT
In article <1993Sep1.170921.1@vax.sonoma.edu> levinson@vax.sonoma.edu writes:
>
>First of all we have on campus a system that has alot of hard disk space, but
>the workstation I want to install LINUX onto does not have enough hard disk
>space to install the basic distribution. What I am hoping to do is just use a
>boot disk and have the remote hard disk mounted as type nfs, and have linux
>resume booting that way, if possible have the remote disk mounted as root.
I did something similar. My Linux box only have a 40MB IDE drive
in it, so I put the bare minimum on it first, then mounted a partition
off my Sun, which has a 1.2GB drive, then put some symblic links in
key places (/usr/lib/gcc-lib, /usr/lib/uucp, etc..) to point to
directories in the mounted partition.
It's been working great for about a week now! 8^)
-greg
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