Re: NFS Boot

2010-01-18 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Am Sonntag 17 Januar 2010 17:10:38 schrieb Mikie: > I'm a 46 year old IT and Automation professional. > > I have people from business, government, and education (small schools) > screaming for an alternatives to Windows. > The malware is disrupting everyone these days and people are drowning. > >

RE: NFS Boot

2010-01-17 Thread Mikie
Maybe that you want: http://www.ltsp.org/ [K. Mike Bradley] This would require servers and I want to be able to drop one or more cheap PC's around the networks and run all on the client. Thanks though. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linux

RE: NFS Boot

2010-01-17 Thread Mikie
Just my opinion, but the questions you have been asking the last few weeks just scream of a school project. If it is, you would be better off figuring this stuff out yourself. If not, disregard my message. If it weren't that I navigated to your website and found "Would you like Closet Rambo to com

Re: NFS Boot

2010-01-16 Thread Dominic Ringuet
Maybe that you want: http://www.ltsp.org/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: NFS Boot

2010-01-16 Thread Michael Tsang
On Sunday 17 January 2010 00:34:00 Mikie wrote: > Hello, > > I am converting my LFS to NFS boot by coping files to the NFS root. > > My question is: > > Would it be better to create a local hard drive swap and file system for > certain root dir? > > Should Tmp be local rather than on the NFS r

Re: NFS Boot

2010-01-16 Thread Randy McMurchy
Mikie wrote these words on 01/16/10 11:19 CST: > I will have 100 PC's booting PXE from an NFS root. > That is the goal. > > The reason is so I won't have to maintain 100 PC's but rather an image > on one server. > I am trying to understand what part of the file system should be on the > image (und

Re: NFS Boot

2010-01-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mikie wrote: > Hello, > > I am converting my LFS to NFS boot by coping files to the NFS root. > > My question is: > > Would it be better to create a local hard drive swap and file system for > certain root dir? > > Should Tmp be local rather than on the NFS root? > > Any suggestions on what t

RE: NFS Boot

2010-01-16 Thread Mikie
I will have 100 PC's booting PXE from an NFS root. That is the goal. The reason is so I won't have to maintain 100 PC's but rather an image on one server. I am trying to understand what part of the file system should be on the image (under NFS root) and what should be on the local hard drive. Tha

Re: NFS Boot

2010-01-16 Thread Andrew Benton
On 16/01/10 16:34, Mikie wrote: > Hello, > > I am converting my LFS to NFS boot by coping files to the NFS root. > > My question is: > > Would it be better to create a local hard drive swap and file system for > certain root dir? > It would be easier for / to be on a local filesystem, that way you