Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 3:37 PM Dan Ritter wrote:
>
> > The usual way is:
> >
> > 1. DNS record tied to a static IP address
> > 2. IP address handed out by DHCP server based on MAC address of
> >the interface
>
>
> > This is especially normal when the root is served by
On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 3:37 PM Dan Ritter wrote:
> Ross Boylan wrote:
> > I have a buster system with no disk, started by PXE boot and using NFS
> root.
> > It appears (details below) that dhcp setup is via ipconfig in one of the
> > initrd scripts (configure_networking() in the "functions" scrip
Ross Boylan wrote:
> I have a buster system with no disk, started by PXE boot and using NFS root.
> It appears (details below) that dhcp setup is via ipconfig in one of the
> initrd scripts (configure_networking() in the "functions" script), with
> ipconfig coming from klibc. So fiddling with the
Hi,
you are correct, in /etc/network/interfaces i have interface eno1
configured with DHCP and after removing configuration system shutdown
correctly.
Thank you!
BR
2017-07-19 20:50 GMT+02:00 Christian Seiler :
> Hi,
>
> (I'm one of the maintainers of the open-iscsi package in Debian.)
>
> On 0
Hi,
(I'm one of the maintainers of the open-iscsi package in Debian.)
On 07/19/2017 07:40 AM, Franz Angeli wrote:
> i have one diskless server able to boot with ISCSI, uefi is configures
> to reach iscsi target and volume correctly;
>
> i installed Debian 9 with debian installer ad all works fin
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 07:40:01AM +0200, Franz Angeli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i have one diskless server able to boot with ISCSI, uefi is configures
> to reach iscsi target and volume correctly;
>
> i installed Debian 9 with debian installer ad all works fine, at the
> end of installation process i rem
> are there any advices for diskless notebooks that is compatible with
> Debian Lenny or Squeeze?
What means "diskless"? Do you mean "without a harddrive" or "without
removable media (like CD/DVD/floppy)"? Something else?
Stefan
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Paul Chany writes:
> are there any advices for diskless notebooks that is compatible with
> Debian Lenny or Squeeze?
I just find out that that there is a mailing list for Debian Laptops
so mybe it's better to ask help there..
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http:
> I would like to try this technology. I have DSL delivered through a
DHCP
> router, a computer capable enough to be a server, and other hardware
that I
> would like to become clients. I expect to use Lenny as the OS.
[SNIP]
> The other method is, of course, LTSP. I have found outlines of how to
s
On 25/07/07, Robert Kopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't actually have Linux installed on my system at the moment, and am
wavering between installing Debian 4.0 and Edubuntu, which has LTSP
capabilities built in:
Edubuntu is still not fully rolled out with LTSP kinks removed. Go
with Ubuntu
Sudev Barar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 24/07/07, Robert Kopp wrote:
> I would like to try this technology. I have DSL delivered through a DHCP
> router, a computer capable enough to be a server, and other hardware that I
> would like to become clients. I expect to use Lenny as the OS.
[SNIP]
On 24/07/07, Robert Kopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would like to try this technology. I have DSL delivered through a DHCP
router, a computer capable enough to be a server, and other hardware that I
would like to become clients. I expect to use Lenny as the OS.
[SNIP]
The other method is, of
On Thursday 21 September 2006 19:26, Frank Hart wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 10:13:08AM +0100, David Goodenough wrote:
> > Alternatively you can use some of the small comms boards that are around
> > these days. There are the WRAP boards from pcengines.ch and the
> > Routerboard boards from Mi
On 8/5/06, Frank Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A couple of months ago, I switched from a normal PC router to a Linksys
WRT54G with OpenWRT. It's a good image but the problem is space. There
is barely room for an OpenVPN server and shorewall. Also, I'm somewhat
worried about timely updates. One
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 10:13:08AM +0100, David Goodenough wrote:
> Alternatively you can use some of the small comms boards that are around
> these days. There are the WRAP boards from pcengines.ch and the Routerboard
> boards from Microtik. The WRAP boards need CF, but the new RBs (the 500 and
Casey Tucker wrote:
Rick Reynolds wrote:
I'm doing nearly the same thing: WRT54GS router, but I'm running
the DD-WRT distro on it. It has the ability to do what you're
talking about, namely mount an NFS partition at boot time and then
read firewalling rules from a file on the NFS
Frank Hart wrote:
A couple of months ago, I switched from a normal PC router to a Linksys
WRT54G with OpenWRT. It's a good image but the problem is space. There
is barely room for an OpenVPN server and shorewall. Also, I'm somewhat
worried about timely updates. One of the big pro's is that the de
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 10:13:08AM +0100, David Goodenough wrote:
> The problem with network booting is that you are then not only reliant on
> the disk on your server, but all of the rest of the server and network
> infrastructure.
True, but the risk can be reduced with a ramdisk and regular back
On Sunday 06 August 2006 03:20, Frank Hart wrote:
> A couple of months ago, I switched from a normal PC router to a Linksys
> WRT54G with OpenWRT. It's a good image but the problem is space. There
> is barely room for an OpenVPN server and shorewall. Also, I'm somewhat
> worried about timely update
I have fixed the problems with all the error messages, The server was
using an ancient RTL8029, i replaced it with an e100, and the whole
network is now flying.
I still know why it is not using tcp, but this is not so important now.
Thank You
Ben.
On 31/10/05, Ben Sagal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot
I have tried to mount it with on tcp, the dhcp sends the following for rootpath:
"192.168.1.1:/srv/client,ro,tcp,hard,intr"
but the tcp part seams to be ignored by the client,
I have confirmed the server can handle tcp since i have been
successful in connecting using tcp from another (non-diskl
Ben Sagal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> I have a few diskless clients setup, using a read-only nfs root, and
> with a tmpfs mounted for /var, /home and /tmp. The system regularly
> prints the following messages:
>nfs: server 192.168.1.1 not responding, still trying
>nfs: server 192.168.1.
Fredrik Jonson wrote:
Hello,
I'm considering turning my desktop, a mini-itx via epia-v, into a
diskless client. Debian seems to provide a diskless package, but
that package unfortunately also seems to be more or less abandoned.
What I wonder is, should I still try go the diskless package way,
Salman Haq wrote:
I've gotten so far as actually getting a client to boot by using
PXELinux.
Since the client is actually diskless, the boot process stops when the
kernel tries to mount a filesystem - that results in a kernel panic as
expected.
I'm considering using a RAM disk image or NFS to
I've gotten so far as actually getting a client to boot by using
PXELinux.
Since the client is actually diskless, the boot process stops when the
kernel tries to mount a filesystem - that results in a kernel panic as
expected.
I'm considering using a RAM disk image or NFS to remotely mount the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
I am trying to build a network of Debian PCs which must be diskless.
The idea is that every once in a while the clients can be booted (may
be remotely?) to download an upgraded kernel. Previously, we have used
removable hard drives - very time consuming.
From br
On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 10:48, Salman Haq wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to build a network of Debian PCs which must be diskless.
> The idea is that every once in a while the clients can be booted (may
> be remotely?) to download an upgraded kernel. Previously, we have used
> removable hard dri
On Saturday 29 November 2003 14:17, Pernilla Uhlin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have created two diskless client with debians diskless package (I've
> followed every step and created diskless-createbasetgz and
> diskless-newimage as well). The clients boot perfectly, every seems to
> be ok. The only thing th
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 09:46:59PM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> If you use etherboot to boot, you also have to compile in "IP: kernel
> level autoconfiguration".
To clarify, any solution which involves giving IP, hostname, and
network information as boot arguments to the kernel (in contrast to
hav
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:05:54PM -0500, dman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 12:07:26AM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> | On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:08:16AM -0300, Marcelo Leal wrote:
> | > i have one FreeBSD box running diskless fine.
> | > now, i wanna one linux box, and...
> | > the bootp, tf
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 03:39:44PM -0700, David Wright wrote:
|
| > Root-NFS: Server returned error -101 while mounting /tftpboot/kiosk0
|
| Hmm. Use ethereal to watch the RPC calls going back and forth; it often
| gives more detailed info on the meaning of error codes.
Ok, I'll try that.
| Hav
> Root-NFS: Server returned error -101 while mounting /tftpboot/kiosk0
Hmm. Use ethereal to watch the RPC calls going back and forth; it often
gives more detailed info on the meaning of error codes.
Have you tried booting off /tftpboot/192.168.1.2 (or whatever your client
IP is) instead of /tftp
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 12:08:21PM -0700, David Wright wrote:
|
| I have a 6-machine computational cluster running diskless under Debian.
| We are using a custom-compiled kernel 2.4.17. To get this to work, you
| MUST compile your own kernel. The stock Debian kernels don't fufill the
| requirement
I have a 6-machine computational cluster running diskless under Debian.
We are using a custom-compiled kernel 2.4.17. To get this to work, you
MUST compile your own kernel. The stock Debian kernels don't fufill the
requirements for diskless booting. I'm afraid I won't be able to recall
them all th
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 12:07:26AM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
| On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:08:16AM -0300, Marcelo Leal wrote:
| > i have one FreeBSD box running diskless fine.
| > now, i wanna one linux box, and...
| > the bootp, tftp and nfs servers are the same for FreeBSD and linux.
| > the
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:08:16AM -0300, Marcelo Leal wrote:
> i have one FreeBSD box running diskless fine.
> now, i wanna one linux box, and...
> the bootp, tftp and nfs servers are the same for FreeBSD and linux.
> the linux box get the kernel, but do not get the root filesystem.
> why???
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:25:31AM -0800, David Wright wrote:
> I am trying to set up a diskless workstation (to centralize maintainance) but
> am having problems getting X sessions to work.
I have done this as well.
> The system boots (from a floppy, then mounts root and /usr seperately over
>
* D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:43:34PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
...
> | There are other networked file systems out there, like Coda, more modern
> | and arguably better than NFS. If you only need to support linux, why not
> | use one of them? Or [e]nbd?
> "Shane" == Shane Liebling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Shane> Hey all, I have been playing around with the diskless
Shane> package for a few weeks now and am a bit confused with how
Shane> to go about installing new packages. Since the /usr dir of
Shane> the server is suppose
Hi,
yes, I have just configured my network with a diskless root
computer. After I figured it all out, it is really simple.
First you must deceide wether you want user-space or kernel-space nfs
server. User space ought to work well, but I preferred the kernel space
daemon, but you have to upgrade
To quote Chris Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
# Anyone have experience with diskless installations? Any
suggestions/hints?
I strongly recomment the Linux Router Project which, if I'm not
mistaken, was at some point a descendant of Debian(but I'm not sure).
Check out http://www.linuxrouter.org , o
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 04:18:43PM +0100, Dietmar Schultz wrote:
:I'm happy with Etherboot (http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/), which
:you can use to create a ROM-Image loaded via BootROM, bootdisk or
:LiLo. The image receives the kernel as NetBootImage using tftp or nfs.
:Configure the netbootima
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 07:26:38AM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
> I'm trying to boot from a LILO based floppy with root=/dev/nfsroot
> (the pseodo device 0,255 named in the docs, tried it as both a block
> and char device), and the kernel fails on trying to mount the rootfs
> with a device fa
--- "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I enabled kernel level auto config, and all the
> NFS stuff I could find
> in the kernel build (serveral iterations using
> xconfig, menuconfig,
> config and finally hand hacking the .config
> file) couldn't find the
> NFS_ROOT option anywhere,
Hi,
I read the howto's, but I'm still having kernel trouble.
I'm trying to boot from a LILO based floppy with root=/dev/nfsroot
(the pseodo device 0,255 named in the docs, tried it as both a block
and char device), and the kernel fails on trying to mount the rootfs
with a device failure.
I enabl
In www.debianplanet.org or in www.debianhelp.org there was a document that
treated this issue.
Hope that helps,
Ignasi
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> > Hi!
> > May I ask where you found the HOWTO documents? I
> > have a friend who want to install a diskless
> > workstation but we can't seem to find any
> > information.
> > thanks!
> >
> "Knud" == Knud Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Knud> Hi I am about to start installing some diskless
Knud> workstations.
Knud> I have found this documentation Diskless-root-NFS-HOWTO
Knud> Diskless-HOWTO NFS-Root mini-HOWTO
Knud> NFS-Root-Client-mini-HOWTO
Knud
> May I ask where you found the HOWTO documents? I
> have a friend who want to install a diskless
> workstation but we can't seem to find any
> information.
> thanks!
There is also a project called LTSP, Linux Terminal Server Project, at
http://www.ltsp.org. The developers use Red Hat, but I kn
On 19/12/2000 at 06:36 -0800, Xucaen wrote:
> Hi!
> May I ask where you found the HOWTO documents? I
> have a friend who want to install a diskless
> workstation but we can't seem to find any
> information.
> thanks!
>
You can find them at many more at your local Linux Documentation Project
mirror
Hi!
May I ask where you found the HOWTO documents? I
have a friend who want to install a diskless
workstation but we can't seem to find any
information.
thanks!
xucaen
--- Knud Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> I am about to start installing
> some diskless workstations.
>
> I
I've just done it a couple of weeks ago, and it's working great. Read
the stuff, because mostly it works the same for Debian :)
Anyway there are different configurations for a diskless machine, and
each one requires different steps. Just as an overview:
* kernel for DL (diskless machine): may be
> What is /etc/rmtab? On my slink computer, it is a mile long...
I am not sure but it may be /var/db/mountdtab or something like that.
mountd in 2.0 puts information in /etc/exports files, and it
moveing the info into /var, is, of course more then welcome from my own
point of view.
> I though
> "Olexiy" == Olexiy Ye Tykhomyrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Olexiy> I think anyway the solution I suggested -- to re-write
Olexiy> nfsd to check the same mount point first was correct,
Olexiy> because tcp standard may to use time-out. Only one
Olexiy> problem, nfs uses udp :
On 22 Jan 2000, Brian May wrote:
> > "Olexiy" == Olexiy Ye Tykhomyrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Olexiy> 1. While shutdown, unmount writes: "device is busy", so
> Olexiy> nfsd on the server does not rid off the corresponding
> Olexiy> enters from /etc/rmtab that is not good i
> "Olexiy" == Olexiy Ye Tykhomyrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Olexiy> 1. While shutdown, unmount writes: "device is busy", so
Olexiy> nfsd on the server does not rid off the corresponding
Olexiy> enters from /etc/rmtab that is not good in common;
I think I have the similar proble
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_
Benak Istvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi!
>
> Someone please tell me, if I want to use a Diskless clients (p200 with
> 64 MB ram) and a strong server and 10 Mb ethernet cards, how will run
> the StarOffice 5.1 on the clients??
> Have anyone any experience with this??
I use staroffice over
aphro wrote:
>
> diskless..i assume everything is mounted over nfs ..so what stops you from
> loadin staroffice over nfs like any other app.
Virtual memory. Swapfile doesn't work over nfs. Having a diskless
machine with 128MB RAM for doing office-suite would be slightly
overboard, I think.
Of
diskless..i assume everything is mounted over nfs ..so what stops you from
loadin staroffice over nfs like any other app. (make sure to do a
multiuser install with the /net option, then run a workstation install for
each user)
nate
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Benak Istvan wrote:
>Someone please tell me, if I want to use a Diskless clients (p200 with
>64 MB ram) and a strong server and 10 Mb ethernet cards, how will run
>the StarOffice 5.1 on the clients??
>Have anyone any experience with this??
Not with loading off the network in
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 06:21:53PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> I would think you could do it if you used once of those heat sinks which have
> a
> peltier junction on the bottom. I don't know if anyone's tried this of course
> but I do
> know such heat sinks exist (I saw and felt one a Comd
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 07:09:39PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> G. Crimp writes:
> > What about application/utility compatibility ? I often heard a few years
> > back, when the alphs port was the only other Linux, that it worked fine,
> > but there were not as many goodies to run on it. If I sugge
Michael Stenner wrote:
>
> On Tue, 4 May 1999, John C. Ellingboe wrote:
> >Michael Stenner wrote:
> >> I disagree that the cpu would need a fan - I used to run a very old P60
> >> (a REALLY hot chip) without a fan (fan kept breaking...) and it was
> >> toasty but caused no problems. If you choose
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@INTERNET
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@INTERNET
cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org@INTERNET
Subject: Re: diskless box: fanless too ?
On Tue, 4 May 1999, John C. Ellingboe wrote:
>Michael Stenner wrote:
>> I disagree that the cpu would need a fa
On Tue, 4 May 1999, John C. Ellingboe wrote:
>Michael Stenner wrote:
>> I disagree that the cpu would need a fan - I used to run a very old P60
>> (a REALLY hot chip) without a fan (fan kept breaking...) and it was
>> toasty but caused no problems. If you choose a cpu that runs cool, you
>> should
G. Crimp writes:
> What about application/utility compatibility ? I often heard a few years
> back, when the alphs port was the only other Linux, that it worked fine,
> but there were not as many goodies to run on it. If I suggest a
> strongarm cpu to this person, how limited is he going to be ?
"G. Crimp" wrote:
> On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 06:21:53PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> > I would think you could do it if you used once of those heat sinks which
> > have a
> > peltier junction on the bottom. I don't know if anyone's tried this of
> > course but I do
> > know such heat sinks e
Michael Stenner wrote:
>
> On Mon, 3 May 1999, G. Crimp wrote:
>
> >I have been asked to help someone learn about Linux. So far, I have
> >installed Linux on an existing box. I must also give advice on new
> >hardware. One of the concerns this person has, is not having anything
> >spinning in
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 09:22:53PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I've ran a few of these.
> 1) AFAIK you require a fan in a closed case
> 2) Watch out for condensation
>a) Can short the junction
>b) Has dissolved the adhesive on me more than once. I ran a K6/225 for
> a month w
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 06:21:53PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> I would think you could do it if you used once of those heat sinks which have
> a
> peltier junction on the bottom. I don't know if anyone's tried this of course
> but I do
> know such heat sinks exist (I saw and felt one a Comd
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 04:08:47PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> On Mon, 3 May 1999, G. Crimp wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know if the same is possible in the ix86 architechture ? I know
> > I could set him up with a diskless box booting off a server in another room,
> > but could that diskless box a
gt;
> I was running a junction on a 486SX/16 clocked up to 40 for about a year,
> until I got my hands on a Cyrix DX2/80, which is running my firewall for
> now.
>
> On Mon, 3 May 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
>
> > *- On 3 May, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote about "Re: diskl
On 3 May, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote about "Re: diskless box: fanless too ?"
> > I would think you could do it if you used once of those heat sinks which
> > have a
> > peltier junction on the bottom. I don't know if anyone's tried this of
> > course but I
*- On 3 May, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote about "Re: diskless box: fanless too ?"
> I would think you could do it if you used once of those heat sinks which have
> a
> peltier junction on the bottom. I don't know if anyone's tried this of course
> but I do
> kn
*- On 3 May, G. Crimp wrote about "diskless box: fanless too ?"
> I have been asked to help someone learn about Linux. So far, I have
> installed Linux on an existing box. I must also give advice on new
> hardware. One of the concerns this person has, is not having anything
> spinning in his of
On Mon, 3 May 1999, G. Crimp wrote:
>I have been asked to help someone learn about Linux. So far, I have
>installed Linux on an existing box. I must also give advice on new
>hardware. One of the concerns this person has, is not having anything
>spinning in his office. He currently uses a diskl
I would think you could do it if you used once of those heat sinks which have a
peltier junction on the bottom. I don't know if anyone's tried this of course
but I do
know such heat sinks exist (I saw and felt one a Comdex last year and boy was it
cold!)
"G. Crimp" wrote:
> I have been asked to
>
> I have been asked to help someone learn about Linux. So far, I have
> installed Linux on an existing box. I must also give advice on new
> hardware. One of the concerns this person has, is not having anything
> spinning in his office. He currently uses a diskless sparc station, which
> is
; From: Stephen J. Carpenter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, August 24, 1998 1:22 PM
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject:Re: diskless systems
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 05:25:08AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] w
debian-user@lists.debian.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: diskless systems
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 05:25:08AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I was wondering if Debian supported diskless systems?
>
> My tests have worked well :)
>
[]
> It t
On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 05:25:08AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was wondering if Debian supported diskless systems?
My tests have worked well :)
> I plan to get a very
> high performance system for myself and wanted to set-up a diskless terminal
> for my daughter that would have full acce
> I was wondering if Debian supported diskless systems? I plan to get a very
> high performance system for myself and wanted to set-up a diskless terminal
> for my daughter that would have full access to X Window via either a
> null-modem cable or a 10baseT connection and was wondering just how ch
fair enough, RTFM. I hadn't thought to look in the mini-HOWTO's. This was
kinda sparse, but I could probably get it to work. Has anyone had any
experience setting up diskless systems over serial ports? I know how to
configure the serial port so I can use hyperterm from WindowsNT, but can
this be do
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 03:10:57PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 09:13:58PM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote:
>
> > Thanks -- that was an excellent idea. I had to massage nfsroot into
> > working with libc6, but it was a great starting point. My client is
> > now taking up 2
On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 09:13:58PM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> Thanks -- that was an excellent idea. I had to massage nfsroot into
> working with libc6, but it was a great starting point. My client is
> now taking up 2100K -- not bad.
Could you plubish the patched nfsroot somewhere? It would be
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> This sounds nice, but would it support say /etc/init.d#HOST=foo#?
Yes, that works too.
> Also, what about /tmp and /var -- those howtos seem to suggest that
> each machine should have its own.
You can use /tmp#HOST=foo#, etc. I kept /var shared, except /var/tmp,
/var/spoo
On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 10:57:39AM -0700, Jim Pick wrote:
> I use Joost's nfsroot package, which sets most of the stuff up. It's
> a good start - but You still need to do a fair amount of hacking to
> get it to work.
>
> I think the package got wiped out by the latest freeze, so you need to
> fet
On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 12:56:06AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > I suggest the NFS-Root and NFS-Root-Client mini-howtos. What I have
> > ended up doing is creating a tree with just enough of /bin, /sbin/,
> > /etc, /var and /tmp to boot up in it, then the client will mount
> >
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> I've been playing with this recently; I have a whole lot of motherboards
> and net cards which I want to use to get some parallel processing happening.
>
> I suggest the NFS-Root and NFS-Root-Client mini-howtos. What I have
> ended up doing is creating a tree with just enou
Jeff Noxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm about to set up a diskless Debian workstation. It's going to be
> booting over NFS using 2Mbps Wavelan... I know, not fast, but it's just
> going to be dishing out .MP3's to my stereo system -- so quietness and
> heat are the major concerns here.
>
On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 08:13:29PM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> I'm about to set up a diskless Debian workstation. It's going to be
> booting over NFS using 2Mbps Wavelan... I know, not fast, but it's just
> going to be dishing out .MP3's to my stereo system -- so quietness and
> heat are the major
Rob,
I have a laptop with no hard drive that boots from the
floppy and automatically nfs mounts its filesystems from a
Sun Solaris machine using "yard". Yard is not yet a debian
package but is available from the usual places.
--Bob
Rob wrote:
>
> I have a spare 486 that I would like to utilise
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Rob wrote:
> I have a spare 486 that I would like to utilise in some form for debian.
> Unfortunatly, it has no hard disc, although it does have a network card.
> The rest of the network consists of an NT4 server, two W95 workstations,
> and another debain (hamm) box, which cur
Hi.
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> I just installed Debian on my 486 and thought I'd try to do it
> without disks. I got as far as the point were it wanted to install
> the kernel, but couldn't go any further. Is there any reason why
> there is no drivers.tgz and perhaps kernel.tgz?
There is actually
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