1 it boots from ROM or FLOPPY DISK, then it broadcasts to all BOOTP Server for its IPADDRESS,HOSTNAME etc.
2 it downloads its kernel via TFTP from BOOTP server and run it .
3 it mounts its root filesystem via NFS from NFS server (also BOOTP server) on RAMDISK and finishs booting.
The question is ,when the NFS server is down, then this diskless workstation cannot work normally since it is so dependent on NFS server.
So when it takes the above step 3, I hope it can work the same way as step 2 .
That is ,it first downloads its compressed root filesystem via TFTP from BOOTP server ,then uncompresses it and mounts it on RAMDISK. If it can work this way , then it will be standalone . I know I have to modify kernel to serve this purpose. But I just don't know how to begin? Can someone help me?
TIA
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