Re: Announce: initrd-tftp 0.1

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Jan 09 2000 - 12:34:53 EST


> you can just append a very small initrd to the kernel which does
> dhcp (or bootp) and then loads the real rootfs ramdisk via tftp into
> ram1 - entirely in userspace. Yes, someone needs to do this very small
> neat first-stage initrd, but it seems at least possible to me.

A standalone well hand tuned tftp client occupies about 8K

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