On 09/02/2013 03:17 AM, Dan Egli wrote: > I'm trying to explain to someone how you could configure Linux to serve as > a PXE boot server to another Linux machine and have that machine (PXE boot > machine, not server sending PXE image) obtain it's root file system > (really, ALL it's files except /tmp, /proc, /sys and things from the > optical drive) via NFS. I've gotten a lot of the details, but I keep > missing something. Does anyone know of a good FAQ/walkthrough/etc... that > would be able to tell me what I'm missing and to tell me if I made any > mistakes?
Maybe try to boot the system and see what heppens? > I'd appreciate it! I think this is going to be for Gentoo, but I don't > really care which distribution the instructions are for. I can fix them in > my head. It's a bit dated, but here's something for CentOS 5: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/DisklessClients and for the gee wiz file, here's a guy who boots windows 7 over pxe disklessly using iscsi, coming from a linux server using LVM and copy-on-write: http://kentonsprojects.blogspot.ca/2011/12/lan-party-house-technical-design-and.html /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
