I hope someone can help me...  I've got an old Mac that I am trying to
get running as a linux box.  I really want to get it running with
NFS-root for testing.

So.... I have emile (http://emile.sf.net) up and running, and I can
mount the home directory for the box.  I can boot using dhcp.

The boot process mounts the home dir, and then dies with

Kernel panic: no init found.

Now this is where I run out of knowledge....

I am pretty familiar with *nux in general, but I have never run debian.
The nfs server is running Fedora Core 2.  I have also never worked
with Macs, and never even seen a mac running linux, so I am a bit in the
dark as to what should be in the NFS-root directory and its structure.

I have all of the sarge CD isos on my server, but I'm not quite sure
what to do with them.

Is there a HOWTO or some basic docs somewhere on how to manually extract
the needed files off the isos and build a functional minimal FS?

All I really want the mac to do is run a basic shell for now......

Thanks,

--Yan

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