I've done this with gentoo many times. I can probably dig up my notes.
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
