On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Grey Kuyper wrote: > > Here is the situation: > > The client computer is: > > 1) booting from its local hard disk > > 2) grabbing its IP and executing its programs from the server. > > We already know that the PXE boot works because it gets us to the point the root file system image is needed. > > That leaves one gap to cross: Creating the image and telling the boot process to use it. > > > > Here's the problem: The clients existing root filesystem is a PIG (about 2 GB) and the client has only 128MB memory. > > Can I not simply move the client's HDD to the server and point the boot process to that (new) block device? Nope, as it is no longer a device on the local system. Apparently there is a root filesystem on NFS howto - it may pay to read that.. -- Steve. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
