Re: [ProgSoc] Challenge to ProgSoc members

[Anton Blanchard <anton@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

> That's OK, though - you should be able to use an entirely different subnet
> for the Linux workstations. What's the Uni running? 192.168.*.*? In which
> case you can use the 10.0.0.* subnet, or whatever. You just need to be sure
> of what's there, so nothing gets stuffed :-)

Routers must not route these subnets - our linux PC will not be able
to talk to anyone.

> Why you can't compile the Linux kernel to use a Progsoc machine as an NFS
> server, using the "root file system on NFS" option for the kernel? That way
> you don't *need* a ramdisk at all. Then set up an NFS mount on one of the
> Progsoc machines and have everything read-only except the temp directory,
> or something :-)

Yep we were doing this with the SparcLinux machines before SCSI worked.
Even NFS swapping is possible but that is painful.

Anton
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Anton Blanchard                         anton@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au
Computer Systems Engineering Student    anton@nospam.lister.flex.com.au
University of Technology                http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~anton/
Sydney, Australia

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