Benedikt Thelen wrote:

> Hi
> I'm trying to deploy diskless OpenSuSE clients at my workplace. The
> idea is to boot the computers via PXE and then load a complete
> OpenSuSE via NFS. Yet I tryed to build my own initrd and it works,
> sometimes and sometimes not :-(, especially some programms like
> Openoffice do not work. I'm sure that there may be an other
> possibility of booting opensuse via nfs using the existing initrd's of
> the opensuse project. 

Hi Benedikt

I'm doing something similar - booting machines via PXE, but with root
filesystem on a SAN connected via fibre.  What you're trying to do
should work perfectly fine.

> but in my case I need serveral computers using the same resources an
> that means that all files on the nfs mus be readonly (especially lock
> and pidfiles must be independently on the machines).

If you're NFS-mounting the root filesystem, you need either different
areas per machine, or local disk for workspace, e.g. for /var. 

I've got a cluster that I boot using etherboot with /usr NFS-mounted
read-only, and everything else on the local disk. 


/Per Jessen, Herrliberg

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