Re: NFS Boot
Am Sonntag 17 Januar 2010 17:10:38 schrieb Mikie: I'm a 46 year old IT and Automation professional. I have people from business, government, and education (small schools) screaming for an alternatives to Windows. The malware is disrupting everyone these days and people are drowning. It's to the point where we can't keep a working PC on people's desktops. I want to develop a solution whereby PC's can be booted from a PXE NFS server to get Linux with a Firefox browser so peeps can migrate to web based business apps, web based email, and Microsoft terminal servers for those Microsoft apps that can't be replaced with web versions (via a Linux RDP client). You might be interested in another project: http://kiwi.berlios.de/ http://en.opensuse.org/Kiwi This project has a solution for exactly that situation, quite some good documentation and a vivid and helpful ML and IRC[1] channels. The tradeoff is that it is designed for RPM based distros. Some usecases were PoS (terminals) and preloads and there are a lot of examples available. Cheers, Jan -- [1] irc.freenode.net #opensuse-kiwi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
RE: NFS Boot
Just my opinion, but the questions you have been asking the last few weeks just scream of a school project. If it is, you would be better off figuring this stuff out yourself. If not, disregard my message. If it weren't that I navigated to your website and found Would you like Closet Rambo to come out of the Closet and open a six pack-O-whoop ass on you? and that you apparently are a big gamer, it just fits the student profile to me. -- Randy [K. Mike Bradley] I'm a 46 year old IT and Automation professional. I have people from business, government, and education (small schools) screaming for an alternatives to Windows. The malware is disrupting everyone these days and people are drowning. It's to the point where we can't keep a working PC on people's desktops. I want to develop a solution whereby PC's can be booted from a PXE NFS server to get Linux with a Firefox browser so peeps can migrate to web based business apps, web based email, and Microsoft terminal servers for those Microsoft apps that can't be replaced with web versions (via a Linux RDP client). ... and yes I do play games to end my day. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
RE: NFS Boot
Maybe that you want: http://www.ltsp.org/ [K. Mike Bradley] This would require servers and I want to be able to drop one or more cheap PC's around the networks and run all on the client. Thanks though. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: NFS Boot
On 16/01/10 16:34, Mikie wrote: Hello, I am converting my LFS to NFS boot by coping files to the NFS root. My question is: Would it be better to create a local hard drive swap and file system for certain root dir? It would be easier for / to be on a local filesystem, that way you have all your networking tools available and you don't need to create an initrd Should Tmp be local rather than on the NFS root? Personally I mount a tmpfs on /tmp it stays in ram and disappears on reboot Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
RE: NFS Boot
I will have 100 PC's booting PXE from an NFS root. That is the goal. The reason is so I won't have to maintain 100 PC's but rather an image on one server. I am trying to understand what part of the file system should be on the image (under NFS root) and what should be on the local hard drive. Thanks. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: NFS Boot
Mikie wrote: Hello, I am converting my LFS to NFS boot by coping files to the NFS root. My question is: Would it be better to create a local hard drive swap and file system for certain root dir? Should Tmp be local rather than on the NFS root? Any suggestions on what to keep local would help. Unless you are trying to create a completely diskless workstation, I'd recommend putting /bin, /boot, /dev, /etc, /lib, /root, /sbin, and swap on the local system. 5.3M/bin 59M /boot 64K /dev 19M /etc 16M /lib 62M /root 5.7M/sbin That could probably be tightened up by removing some files from /root and /boot and stripping binaries and libraries. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: NFS Boot
Mikie wrote these words on 01/16/10 11:19 CST: I will have 100 PC's booting PXE from an NFS root. That is the goal. The reason is so I won't have to maintain 100 PC's but rather an image on one server. I am trying to understand what part of the file system should be on the image (under NFS root) and what should be on the local hard drive. Just my opinion, but the questions you have been asking the last few weeks just scream of a school project. If it is, you would be better off figuring this stuff out yourself. If not, disregard my message. If it weren't that I navigated to your website and found Would you like Closet Rambo to come out of the Closet and open a six pack-O-whoop ass on you? and that you apparently are a big gamer, it just fits the student profile to me. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.22] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 13:59:00 up 20 days, 19:07, 1 user, load average: 0.24, 0.18, 0.08 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: NFS Boot
On Sunday 17 January 2010 00:34:00 Mikie wrote: Hello, I am converting my LFS to NFS boot by coping files to the NFS root. My question is: Would it be better to create a local hard drive swap and file system for certain root dir? Should Tmp be local rather than on the NFS root? Any suggestions on what to keep local would help. Thanks. I recommend you to put /home /usr on the NFS and other things on an initramfs. Then you can configure init to probe for an IP address automatically and you can create a diskless workstation with / mounted on initramfs signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: NFS Boot
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