Since your questions are of a general nature, I'm replying to the list so others can help answer them.
M. Bernardoff wrote: > I'm using (true) diskless boot for about 1 year, but without using any > packages, building everythings myself... It's a good way to learn but > a good way to loose time too :o) > So, I'm interessted in some details : > how is the separation of /var and /etc done ? Ramdrive ? nfs with > --tranlate-names ? seprate directories ? The diskless-newimage script in the diskless package creates a common root directory which the hosts share, intended to be read-only, e.g. in /var/lib/diskless/default/root. This root includes an init script which mounts separate read-write /etc and /var directories, which are created on the server by the diskless-newhost script e.g. in /var/lib/diskless/default/10.0.0.1/etc and var. diskless-newimage creates an etc/fstab file, which is modified by diskless-newhost and put into 10.0.0.1/etc with NFS mount points for root, etc, var and var/lib/dpkg. It's really very well-done. I suggest installing diskless and reading its documentation for details, there's a very detailed howto on everything from building kernels to setting up NFS, tftp, dhcp, etc. It should probably be updated though to reflect the new dhcp-3, which seems to be able to support netbooting better. > a commun /dev may be a issue on some systems (for exemple with > multimedia machines) is it separate too ? > how /tmp is mounted with this package ? /tmp is shared and read-only. That's a good point, maybe it should be a symlink to /var/tmp? > did the package manage network PXE booting (true diskless) ? No, it only sets up the NFS root stuff, but its documentation describes how to do that. > I would be glad to have some information about this, but too much > work to dig in the package. If someone could answer some of my > questions, it would be very intersting. even a "mount > > send.me.this.file" , a "dmesg > this.one.too" and some /etc/exports, > /etc/fstab, "tree /tftpboot > bigger.but.send.it.to.me.anyway" on a > working diskless system managed with this package would be very > interesting for me :o) The documentation includes many of these... Regards, -- -Adam P. GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe! <http://lyre.mit.edu/%7Epowell/The_Best_Stuff_In_The_World_Today_Cafe.ogg> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
