On Monday 13 February 2006 07:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's good to see slug is back after a short period of being offline. > > I decided on the weekend I wanted to give it a go trying to get linux > to pxe boot and then use a nfs root filesystem. > > After various reading and lots of changing of files I did complete the > task. I have a Ubuntu Breezy install booting from my box doing myth > backend. It pxe boots and then grabs its nfsroot from the backend too. > Quite happy about it, not sure how it will go on a real computer (as > the test system is a vmware virtual client). Maybe one of these days I > will buy a mini-itx box to use as a remote frontend for mythtv and > have it pxe boot and nfsroot its fs from the backend. > > Going to forward I still need to grab the packages required to setup > xorg and various other things. The main thing is it boots to a prompt > and i can logon like a real system. Looks like shutdown hangs at > restarting message, but hey no big deal.
Michael look at http://www.ltsp.org That is the basis for their system. It shows lots of interesting twists. I've also taken the pxe installer and done a network install of SuSE and of RH9. I'm sure FC is the same. Spelunk the CD/DVD as I recall /boot/pxe or /images/pxe. This is a good place to look/play Shutdown is ummm complicated .... You're running the shutdown program, you turn off the NFS stuff and you <nothing><gasp><root gone><shutdown program gone> You may also do RAM-root (flash, pxe, cd) and run from ram. That's what the installers do, but is also a cute/nice/fast system. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
