>
> Hi,
>
> I posted this once, but somehow it got lost, and Red Hat Support doesn't
> answer, does probably not think this qualifies as a basic installation
> question ...
>
> I want to do a rather "strange" installation - install everything, but
> don't include /usr/ (/usr/ would be provided by NFS).
>
> However, there's a problem here: rpm supports --excludepath [path]. But
> unlike the --excludedocs option it cannot be put in the rpm macros file
> (at least I didn't manage and I didn't find any documentation
> indicating something else ...).
Since almost everything lives in /usr, don't use rpm at all.
Create a basic system that you can tarball, and untar it onto the target
machines. All maintenance is done on the host, the system that serves the
files.
You can go further, and mount everything by NFS - I set up a boot disk
here that would run Linux on any machine on my network. I could have spent
some money and bought boot roms; then I'd not have needed the floppy.
The beowulf and netboot howtos are good starting-points. I used DHCP do
issue IP addresses; the kernel can be configured to issue a bootp request.
You need some directories particular to each machine: /var (stuff it
writes on), /etc (host-specific configurations).
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