Dave schrieb: > Peer Oliver Schmidt wrote: >> Dave, >> >>>> would you mind providing some more information about your netboot >>>> image? Maybe even make the image/ tools available for other people >>>> to use? >>> >> [..] >> >>> www.etherboot.org, this web site will make you the rom image, then >>> you need the chip, mine was a 27c16 I think, then a programmer to >>> burn the prom chip. The web site supports most any network card >>> that has a spot for a 28 pin chip, etc. >> >> Thanks for the info. I am looking for the remote root file to send to >> the diskless client. Any pointers for this?! > > I used gentoo, the boot rom will request a kernel from a tftp server, > and send it to the client, and boot the kernel, so you have to spin up a > kernel for that client, you can use the diskless nodes howto at gentoo > wiki to get a better idea. > > A lot of newer motherboards will use PXE boot, therefore no boot rom > needed. I'm using Fedoras' "system-config-netboot" feature, which creates a network bootable system from a previously installed Fedora OS. It creates a "read only" base system, and r/w mounts parts that need to be written to. That way you can share the read only base between multiple clients, and they only take a few MB for their r/w data. It also creates the pxelinux config, all you have to do is activate it in dhcpd.conf I'm using a full blown Fedora image as read-only root (1.6GB), and the clients take up about 160MB (with 50MB v4l source and ~70MB vdr sources). The Client doesn't support PXE, so I used a Boot-CD created from www.rom-o-matic.net. Andreas
