On Sat, 2003-05-10 08:56:01 -0700, Michael Anburaj <michaelanburaj@hotmail.com>
wrote in message <BAY1-F3AmEaJswFCHOz0000b1d9@hotmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> >"init" is another thing. Your NFS root should include a /sbin/init or
> >or /etc/init or /bin/init or /bin/sh. If none of those exists, you
> >loose.
>
>
> For setting up the NFS, I did the following:
> 1. exported the /export/RedHat7.1
That's okay.
> 2. downloaded MIPS_RedHat7.1_Release-02.00.tar from
> ftp://ftp.mips.com/pub/linux/mips/installation/redhat7.1/02.00
>
> this tar file has the following:
>
> linux\installation\RedHat7.1\RPMS\mips\ <contains a lot of rpms>
> linux\installation\RedHat7.1\RPMS\mipsel\ <contains a lot of rpms>
> linux\installation\RedHat7.1\RPMS\noarch\ <contains a lot of rpms>
> linux\installation\RedHat7.1\install\ <contains a Makefile, install.list,
> install.script>
> linux\installation\RedHat7.1\install\root\etc\ <contains inittab, securetty>
> linux\installation\RedHat7.1\install\root\etc\sysconfig\ <contains network>
> linux\installation\RedHat7.1\install\root\etc\xinetd.d\ <contains telnet,
> rlogin, rsh,rexec, hosts>
>
> & some more files.
>
> Now tell me what should be extracted to my NFS export /export/RedHat7.1
> (along with their relative path info.).
Well, I think you should start reaing the files in the install path
(Makefile, install.list etc.). You should also notice that with Linux
you've got '/' as path separator, not DOSsish '\'.
Basically, I *think* your board is big endian, so you need to unpack
everything from the mips and the noarch directory.
After that, there should be:
/export/Redhat7.1/sbin/init
/export/Redhat7.1/bin/sh
...and all the other files.
> Also let me know what path to be passed on to the kernel as parameter to
> nfsroot=
> Is it simply /export/Redhat7.1?
nfsroot=ser.ver.ip.addr:/export/Redhat7.1
> Another question: I don't see a init file in the tar. or is inittab
> similar? Is this "MIPS_RedHat7.1_Release-02.00.tar" tar file the right file
If you'd cared to look into that file, it's only a plain text file, no
executable file. So these are different things.
> & the only file that is needed for now; that has the right stuff in it? Or
Possibly. I've got no chance to look into it and to now you haven't
posted a URL from which I can get that file's contents...
> do I need to get the right file from a different tar file?
Maybe. Maybe not. Depends...
MfG, JBG
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