NFS-Root mini-HOWTO

1. Copyright

(c) 1996 Andreas Kostyrka (e9207884 at student.tuwien.ac.at or andreas at ag.or.at)

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1.1 Contributors

• Avery Pennarun <apenwarr  at  foxnet.net> (how to boot without LILO)
• Ofer Maor <ofer  at  hadar.co.il> (a better mini-HOWTO about setting up diskless workstations)
• Christian Leutloff <leutloff  at  sundancer.tng.oche.de> (info about netboot)
• Greg Roelofs <newt  at  pobox.com> (2.2/2.4 updates, DHCP info, NFS-export info)