I have several machines that I would like to be pseudo-diskless. I have no desire to buy a EPROM burner for my NIC's (plus learn the intracies of BOOTP) to make them truly diskless. Having to boot from a NFS-Root floppy that references a central Linux box for it's root partition is good enough.
I've searched the 'net and found NFS-Root instructions and scripts for other distributions like Debian. I'd prefer to stick with Mandrake for many reasons (especially since I really like the Mandrake distro). I also looked over the NFS-Root Howto. It's not a typical Howto, it's a management-level overview without any details. My intent was to create 100MB partitions on an existing Mandrake box, and do a mimimal install of Mandrake 8.2 (and probably clone the partitions so that I have one for each client). I would then need a NFS-Root disk (specific to Mandrake?) for each client so that each machine can grab the right root partition from the central server. Has anyone attempted this or can someone give me some specific areas to do more research? I've searched linuxdoc.org and mandrakeuser.org but haven't found enough info to even tell me if I can even do this with a Mandrake distribution. Thanks, Matthew Zaleski
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