> that might not be what he is looking for - ltsp is mostly aimed at thin clients (all >processing happens on server).
thanks for all that responded...I am almost done now... here are some mistakes taht I made, in case anyone have the same problem later on.. 1. bootp still doesn't like me...so I switched to dhcp...After re-compiling the kernel to include some features that are needed, dhcp would not seg. fault any more.. 2. I used mknbi-linux to create the network bootable kernel, without realizing that mknbi-linux wrapped the kernel with etherboot header, while my network card has a PXE bootrom. Last time that I did a diskless, I was able to wrap the kernel in PXE header directly...but I can't remember which program I used though...so now the boot process is actually broken down to 2 pieces...first, download a etherboot rom image from the dhcp server, then download the real kernel....have to use dhcpd 3.* though.. Now here are my questions. I think this is rather distribution-related. I am using Debian testing. I compiled in root fs on NFS on teh diskless...now under the root fs, I have bin dev etc home lib proc sbin usr var and the fstab on diskless looks like proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 10.0.0.1:/bin /bin nfs ro 0 0 10.0.0.1:/home /home nfs rw 0 0 10.0.0.1:/lib /lib nfs ro 0 0 10.0.0.1:/sbin /sbin nfs ro 0 0 10.0.0.1:/usr /usr nfs ro 0 0 and the /etc/exports on the server looks like /bin 10.0.0.2(ro) /etc 10.0.0.2(ro) /home 10.0.0.2(rw) /lib 10.0.0.2(ro) /sbin 10.0.0.2(ro) /usr 10.0.0.2(ro) /tftpboot/compute1 10.0.0.2(rw) When kernel first booted, it mounted the / read-only (if I remember right). then some script is supposed to re-mount / read-write. but at that point, it asked me for root password. (I think it invoked sulogin). but sulogin somehow can't find the password database (I assume /etc/passwd) even though I do have /etc/passwd...at this point, system will reboot.. so I guess my question is, does anyone know of a / fs and start-up script, that are rather painless, and can let me mount my /usr, /lib, /home I don't really need anything fancy since I only wants to run computation on this machine... I tried to mount / read-only...it went fine, except I cna't login...and I though other than /, nothing gets mounted... thanks for any info.. chen -- ~ __ Freedom of Choice 'v' / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ // \\ / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / /( )\ /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ ^`~'^ _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
