From: Hamish Moffatt (jhza.ymeglos@supercom.com.ph)
Date: Sun Feb 04 2001 - 04:04:58 EET
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 06:59:53PM -0700, Brian J. McCarthy wrote:
> I am a transplant from the Solaris world. Solaris will allow you to boot a
> node diskless and share drives between machines. As I setup the Red Cross
> EOC in Phx, I would like to have a master server that contains everythin
> required and boot the workstations from Floppy and mount the master node.
>
> Has anyone done this or know how to configure this??/
My APRS server here runs Linux diskless. It was not a trivial
process to configure; there's not much support for it by
the distributions.
Debian GNU/Linux has some packages related to diskless machines,
but I don't know what they do. I haven't used them.
My diskless setup is based on Debian though. Basically, you
need a kernel configured to use NFS for the root file system,
a file system with standard layout on the NFS server for each
client (the clients can't share /var or /tmp), and a way to boot
the clients. You can boot them off floppy quite easily; the client
kernel should be configured to use BOOTP/DHCP or RARP for address
discovery. I boot mine using a boot ROM on the ethernet card.
Hamish
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