[Fwd: the root filesystem] (again)

[Matthew Hoskins <mhoskins@microdsi.net>]

Hello Netbooters,  Floyd knocked out ALL internet, phone, and Celular Connectivity
round here for the past 3 days,  If anyone sent me a responce to the email i sent
out (quoted below) please resend it because i'm sure it has bounced by now...
Thanks... It feels so good to be connected again :)


Matthew Hoskins wrote:

> Ok, what i will do is package up my beta version of the fs, it compressed to
> under 30M, If somone can give me a publicly accesable place to upload the tarball
> people can help me with testing etc...
>
> This all, of course depends on how huricane floyd treats me, most of the streets
> are flooded 'round here and lots of wind, so i dont know how netconnectivity is
> gunna hold up :)
>
> Someone pls tell me of a public ftp that we can work from... If would be cool if
> we could create a "Standatd" netboot rootfs that is general enough to suit lots
> of ppls needs.... and of course documentation to make it easy for them to use
> it...
>
> -Matt
>
> Ken Yap wrote:
>
> > Matthew Hoskins <mhoskins@microdsi.net> wrote:
> >
> > >Greetings,  I am in the process of creating a diskless root filesystem for a
> > >project i am involved in... Its a bit larger than most b/c i wanted a "swiss
> > >army knife"...  Since server space is cheap its about 85M...
> > >
> > >But, unlike a lot of rootfs's i've seen this one can be shared across all the
> > >clients... The "/" dir is mounted ro,  and it maintains an intact rpm databas
> > >...
> > >
> > >Does this project sound useful to anyone other than myself?
> >
> > Yes, please! Please make the software available to us netbooters and
> > Open Source world. I'd be happy to include it in the Etherboot contrib/
> > software or link to its home page from the documentation.

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