JohnS wrote:
>
>> Im trying to get a diskless boot set up under CentOS 5.2, and having no luck
>> at all.
>>
>> I am to the point of running system-config-netboot, and whatever information
>> I put in, I get an error message.
>>
>> Responding to the 2nd button on the first popup, which asks for NFS info,
>> I put in the IP address of the current machine (the machine that will hold
>> the boot images for the diskless machine) and the root directory for the
>> diskless machine, viz
>>
>> /diskless/i386/CentOS5.2/root
>>
>> Which has a copy of my root file system, and in particular has a /boot
>> subdirectory. When hitting FORWARD, I get the error message:
>>
>> The diskless subdirectory must be NFS exported
>> and contain a boot subdirectory.
>>
>> Now Ive checked, vsftpd is running, nfs is running, and the above directory
>> (and others) are in the /etc/exports file.
>>
>> I did this several years ago under Fedora, and dont remember having problems
>> like this. Has ANYONE done this recently, and do you remember what you had
>> to do??? I would REALLY like to exchange some e-mail with you.
>> It would be nice if there was an example somewhere.
>
> Check Out:
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/DisklessClients
Or, you could install the Centos-based version of k12ltsp which has
everything set up for booting thin clients. That's the 5EL version
here: http://www.k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/DownLoad. For other
purposes, drbl from http://drbl.sourceforge.net/ might work. There are
RPMs for Centos. It includes clonezilla, but can be configured through
a menu to boot other images.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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