I found the gentoo netboot HOWTO very useful thanks.
I now have an issue with the size of the kernel I'm
trying to boot. My client gets the message too large
for available memory.
I noted on the mirrors that sparc had an experimental
directory that contained a small netboot kernel.
Do I just have to build a custom kernel for x86 with as few
options enabled as possible?

Thanks for any help.
-Walt

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, PenguinsAnonymous@notAchance.org wrote:

> I found the gentoo netboot HOWTO very useful thanks.
> I now have an issue with the size of the kernel I'm
> trying to boot. My client gets the message too large
> for available memory.

Which bootloader are you using? I'd suggest using GRUB instead. Lilo
sucks excessively.

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PenguinsAnonymous@notachance.org wrote:
>
>
> I found the gentoo netboot HOWTO very useful thanks.
> I now have an issue with the size of the kernel I'm
> trying to boot. My client gets the message too large
> for available memory.
> I noted on the mirrors that sparc had an experimental
> directory that contained a small netboot kernel.
> Do I just have to build a custom kernel for x86 with as few
> options enabled as possible?
>

The problem I am having is the Gentoo document seems written around
the existing sparc netboot image. I am working with x86 and
it seems to me you have to customize a kernel image that has nfs
compiled in and as few other things as possible. (so as to
be small)

Again I am at the point of tftp transfer. (ie adapter already
dhcp configured etc)
Can anyone point me to a good document that talks about
the rest of the process?

Thanks.
-Walt

resolved problem.
I didn't have pxe setup properly, needed pxelinux.0
and its config file in pxelinux.cfg.
also dhcpd.conf had missing settings.
-Walt