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On 9 April 2002 16:46, Geoffrey Gallaway wrote: > I am attempting to create a central NFS server with a single slackware 8 > installation that many boxes can use as their root disks. I got bootp > kernel level autoconfiguration working and the test box sucessfully mounts > the root (/) NFS share. I'm using floppy disks with kernels on diskless > machines. Hi there! I've done this. I'm sitting on one of such diskless boxen now. (actually, it has 2 disks, one is a 1.2G IDE turned into "diskette" for home <-> work data transfer, other is *ugh* an NT installation). > The problem occurs for /var, /tmp and /etc. Because each machine will need > it's own /var, /tmp and /etc I've been trying to create a ramdisk or tmpfs > filesystem for those partitions on each box. I've been using the system > initialization scripts to setup these directories and dynamically rewrite > important files (HOSTNAME, etc) in /etc. [snip] Looks like stuff for Al Viro. Consider mailing him with a report (kernel/GCC version, symptoms etc). > mount -w -n -t tmpfs -o defaults tmpfs /mnt > cp -axf /etc /mnt > mount -w -t tmpfs -o defaults tmpfs /etc > cp -axf /mnt/etc/* /etc/ > umount /mnt > # -- Reapeat for /var and /tmp -- Erm... just make a /etc_template, and you'll eliminate one cp. -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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