Hi Marcin Kurc,
> Anyone have any experience with diskless debian?
> What would be the best way to create root directories for the diskless
> machines?
Install Debian, mount server:/usr/remote /mnt, copy / to
/mnt, set up bootp, config your kernel with
IP: kernel level autoconfiguration
CONFIG_IP_PNP
BOOTP support
CONFIG_IP_PNP_BOOTP
RAM disk support
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM
Initial RAM disk (initrd) support
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
NFS filesystem support
CONFIG_NFS_FS
Root file system on NFS
CONFIG_ROOT_NFS
then
dd if=/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage of=/dev/fd0
mknod /dev/nfs c 0 255
rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/nfs
and you can boot every computer with or without hard disk in it. It's
cool, because you can show Linux to windows users, or you can prepare a
hard disk with al the tools a full system has.
Good luck!
Ookhoi
