Robert Kulagowski wrote:

I have a number of frontends, each with local storage. I have a master backend which is already serving as a DHCP / TFTP / NFS server to a MediaMVP and my frontends.

What I'd like to do is take my existing frontends (one a Debian unstable, one a FC2) and set them up as semi-diskless; boot off the local storage, then switch to using NFS for everything else, at which point I can spin-down the local hard drive, reducing noise.

I'm not really interested in a complete diskless system, and the various HOWTO's that I've seen pretty much revolve around netbooting / PXE.

Has anyone already done something similar?

I haven't done it but I'm getting ready to. I am looking at doing a CD-ROM netboot image (basically the floppy netboot image written to a CD) and getting everything from NFS from that point. I had tracked down a couple links in my research to date.

http://howtos.linux.com/howtos/Network-boot-HOWTO/index.shtml
This seemed promising and talked a bit about the bootable CD-ROM

The netboot site has the basic HOWTO for making the floppy. I believe that the same process holds true for the CD-ROM.

Kevin

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