I was just trying this out on FC4 and system-config-netboot didn't work out all that well for me. It wasn't NFSRooting properly. After a bit of googling I saw other people were having similar problems. The maintainer of that util was working on it, but even after upgrading to his newest package it still wasn't working right. Some of the threads I saw suggested that perhaps the Fedora kernels broke some of the netbooting stuff, and in my experimenting I had more luck with a vanilla kernel than I did recompiling any of the kernels with the Fedora patches applied. I did finally get a kernel booting, but didn't really have the filesystem set up for all the dynamic stuff /dev etc.. After screwing with it for a couple days I decided that my time was worth more than just throwing a spare 40gig in it. I couldn't find a good howto that was current and applied to what I was trying to do, although the one posted in this thread looks good after a glance, I may look into it further and give it another shot. Bottom line, if the system-config-netboot worked right, it would be pretty slick as it basically does everything for you, if it doesn't and you're new to linux, it might not be worth the effort involved. The PXE boot, tftp, dhcp part was easy, it was the kernel image and NFSroot that was difficult. I'm no Linux guru, but I've been using it for a number of years, and even though I could tell it was clearly possible, the additional time investment to get it working right just didn't seem worth it to me. Also as far as installing packages on the diskless, from what I understand it's not too hard, you just chroot to your diskless root and go to town.
On 7/7/05, Brian Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fedora Core 3 includes a GUI utility called system-config-netboot that > simplifies creating diskless clients. The basic procedure is: .... > I was able to get this working, for one diskless client, and it works > very well. The only thing that I'm not sure about is what happens if > one wants to upgrade any packages on the diskless clients. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
