[LUGSB] PXE boot

[Jim Robert]

thanks guys... I'll experiment with this tomorrow and let you know how it
works out.

On Jan 13, 2008 1:33 PM, Benjamin Kudria <ben at kudria.net> wrote:

> On Sunday, January 13 2008, Jim Robert wrote:
> > I recently got a hold of 6 diskless workstations and wanted to try
> setting
> > up a small cluster, but I'm having trouble setting up the PXE server.
> Does
> > anyone know where I can get a relatively comprehensive guide on setting
> up
> > this type of system (booting several diskless clients from one server
> using
> > PXE)?
>
> A while ago I played around with LTSP and they had a pretty good overview
> of
> how their system was set up.  Apparabtly the project has changed somewhat
> with Ubuntu integration, but their wiki still has tons of useful info.
>  Take
> a look: http://www.ltsp.org/
>
> > Also... do I need an ISO on the server? or can I just do a regular
> debian
> > install and copy/paste all the files to an NFS partition.
>
> LTSP had the NFS root filesystem exported, and they sent the kernel and a
> small install over TFTP.  The small install mounted the big one over NFS
> and
> then pivot_root'ed.
>
> -Ben Kudria
>
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