Re: [casper] Setting up ROACH NFS filesystem and server

[Jason Manley]

Hi guys




Sample config files are attached.

You need a TFTP server and also an NFS export for the kernel image. Your DHCP server should include the option for root filesystem location. I recommend using dnsmasq since it does all three of these services plus DNS all in one. Danny, I'd appreciate a writeup on this procedure. I had very good intentions of doing it myself, but am not finding the time. Please put a link to your wiki page from http://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/Getting_Started_with_ROACH

Thanks,
Jason

 

Billy, since the page was renamed from roach_getting_started, old emails in the mailinglist point to the wrong page. Is there a chance of putting-up a redirect to the new location?

dnsmasq.conf
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exports
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On 29 Oct 2009, at 09:07, William Mallard wrote:

Danny Price wrote:

I extracted the filesystem from the SVN
(filesystem_etch_nfs_2009_07_07.tar.gz), to
 /srv/roach_boot/etch

and I've set these up in the /etc/exports file:
 # 'ROACH-dev' is this PC, the NFS host
 /srv  ROACH-dev(rw,no_root_squash)

 # 'roach' is the roach board, serial 020208
 /srv  roach(rw,no_root_squash)

I think you need to export /srv/roach_boot, not /srv.  And unless i'm
missing something, you probably don't need to export an nfs share to
the nfs server itself.

As a sidenote, I was thinking of chronicling my endeavours on setting
up a ROACH working environment, would this be of use?

Yes, please do!  My rule-of-thumb is: if it was non-trivial for you,
then chances are that someone else will benefit from your writing it
up on the wiki, so you should.

Billy