Re: NFS mounted rootfs possible via PCMCIA NIC ?

Andreas Schaufler (andreas.schaufler@gmx.de)
Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:29:46 +0100


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> PCMCIA relies in part on user space. You can do this, it involves
> building a large initrd with a dhcp client on it that sets up pcmcia,
> then nfs mounts stuff, then pivot_root()'s into it. Its not exactly
> trivial

Thanks for your reply. I get the basic idea from what you say. But what do you
mean by pivot_root()'ing into it ?!?

I'll try Andrew Morton's suggestion first, because it sounds easier. If I
can't get it running I'll try your suggestion.

regards
-Andreas
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