Hi everyone We are making a disk less workstation environment which support python.We use PXE DHCP TFTP to boot up disk less system.There are three choices as i know to set up a python environment for diskless system.
First Solution, Use a initrd image with everything inside as the root file system.Diskless computer boots up with a kernel and this rootfs image.If everything goes fine.We could use python in the ram disk.In my situation,Target computers have 2G memory and 100M network,so the we don't need to worry about the size of initrd image.MY QUESTIONS are what files and libraries do i need to put into initrd image.Is there any How-to file to help me install python into a initrd image or any available initrd image with python installed . Second Solution.Use a small initrd to boot up the system and use NFS to mount those directories on Diskless server.I guess we could use / etc/fstab file to make it.Though we boot up the system form network ,we need to mount its local hard disk to directory tree.MY QUESTION ARE How to mount local devices in a diskless system?Is that done by kernel automatically or i have to configure it in fstab? Third Solution.Use NFS ROOT file system to boot up .In this solution.We don't need initrd any more.What we are going to do is recompile the kernel and build those important modules inside.It is weird that my kernel couldn't get ip form dhcp server(it can use a static ip form kernel command line).I notice that pxe could get ip form dhcp so it must be something wrong with the Kernel.We stop here. The three solution above are all i could think about. Any idea about my questions is welcomed Thanks Best Regard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
