Diskless Notebook

[Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@comm.uni-bremen.de>]

Hi,

I am trying to run diskless Linux on a Toshiba notebook.
I compiled a 2.4.0 kernel with
	- IP: kernel level autoconfiguration
	- PCMCIA support
	- a driver for my PCMCIA network card
	- Root file system on nfs

I copied the kernel to a floppy (w/o LILO) and bootet the laptop.
The network card was recognized and initialized, but too late! The
kernel had already tried IP autoconfig before and found no devices. So
it all ended with

	"Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up"

Is there any way i can get this to work? I have not tried supplying
Server IP on the kernel command line; i do want to use bootp-config.

TIA

Heinrich Rebehn
                        "Have disk - will travel"
University of Bremen
Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Department of Telecommunications -

E-mail: mailto:rebehn@comm.uni-bremen.de
Phone : +49/421/218-4664
Fax   :            -3341
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