I wonder if it will be possible to install Mandrake 9.,2 on an NFS system. I do not mean FROM an NFS system. I want to install Mandrake on a Diskless machine!
Sorry for repeating stuff, but I want to make it clear that I do not want to install the system from an NFS mount!
I haven't done it, but I know others have.
The Linux Documentation Project is the best place on the net for information like this, www.tldp.org. Yours is at: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-Root.html
Oh I see. The hard way :-)
Had somewhat hoped that Mandrake would support it in the install phase.
I usually hate to recompile Mandrake kernels have always had great trouble with them :-(
You could also look at the Linux Terminal Server Project found at http://www.ltsp.org I have had 4 of these running ranging from pentium 120 with 32mb ram and up. 16mb of ram will work ok but 32 is better. My first was a dx2-66 with 8mb of ram, it worked but was a bit slow. The server will need plenty of ram, I had 512mb in the server and was using it as a client as well and it worked fine.
LTSP is the reason that I want to install a machine on an NFS filesystem. LTSP needs a server. It's this server I want on an NFS filesystem :-) I do not want to waste 75GB to install an operating system that rarely will use more than 5. My server is real good at serving files but it doesn't have X on it and it never will either :-)
Best Regards, Joachim Holst
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