On Jun 7, 2005, at 7:32 AM, Mark J. Small wrote:
I ran a diskless frontend until recently. It is really nice if when
you get
it working. Unfortunately, when I upgraded the motherboard on the
frontend,
PXE just stopped working altogether. Now I have a small hard drive
that I
boot from using syslinux. I still have my root drive on nfs, and I
spin down
the rather loud local drive during boot.
Running diskless really is a great way to cut down the noise, and
there is
plenty of documentation out there on how to do it.
One idea if PXE doesn't work, or you don't have PXE, and you still want
a silent machine, would be to boot from flash (or even floppy). I have
a CompactFlash to IDE adapter, that can be used to load a kernel, and
the rest could be loaded from network. If the motherboard supports
booting from a USB drive, this would do the same thing. You could even
load the kernel from a floppy, although when I used to do this the same
floppy sitting in the same drive for months on end would need to be
replaced once or twice a year. Not exactly diskless in that case, but
other than 30 seconds at boot, there is no drive noise.
-Michael
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