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Re: boot hangs after mounting nfs root but only with eprom not with floppy




Rainer Schoenen wrote:
> 
> My root filesystem is a SuSE 7.0 minimal system (installed into directory /tftpboot/thin1).
> Unfortunately the minimum possible system takes 140MB
> (does anybody know how to create a much lighter system ?)

you could try
 http://elina.htlw16.ac.at/~hoerandl/nfs-root/

i am not currently using it, so i am not sure if it works with suse 7.0
-- but it was
tested with suse up to 6.3 (or maybe 6.4)

you need only a few mega for all clients - the rest ist done with
symlinks

Gustl

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