Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 03 Oct 1998 10:34:18 +0100 (MET) | From | DAVID BALAZIC <> | Subject | Re: Help... diskless workstation? |
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>Is there a HOWTO somewhere on how to setup diskless workstations? > >I'd like to set one up where I boot from diskette and possibly setup a ramdisk, >but mount the necessary directories over NFS.
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/nfsroot.txt helped me started.
Use a recent kernel( I use 2.0.35 , used 2.0.33 before )
Basically you need to compile in nfs support and 'root on nfs'. Then load the kernel ( I use loadlin ) and don't forget the parameters ( read nfsroot.txt ).
On the nfs server you need to export a directory which looks like a normal root directory. U can make a copy of another root directory. Export it to the diskless client and don't forget to use the option 'no_root_squash'. Off course read-only access wouldn't work well , so add write access too :-)
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