Hello,
I'm quite new to Linux in general, so may be one or the other question may
sound quite simple to you. Nevertheless:
My situation:
I have a Workstation with static IP runnning RedHat 9.0. This is the NFS
Server.
Secondly I have a singele-chip PC with a flash ROM running RedBoot which
then loads the Linux Busybox system if not interrupted. This is the client
system.
What I want to do:
I'd like to have the client system booting via NFS from the server system,
so that I can develop software and perhaps alter the operating system for
the single-chip PC on the server system and thus reducing time for development.
What I'm searching for:
... is something like a step-by-step instruction set on how to reach the
above mentioned system configuration.
I already read through a lot of how-to's and books, but still I find
setting up the system quite complicated... - may be I worked to long with M$...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
tia
Lars
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Hi Lars-
Have you read nfsroot.txt in the Documentation directory of the kernel
source? That's a really good first step.
-mc
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Lars Meinecke wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm quite new to Linux in general, so may be one or the other question may
> sound quite simple to you. Nevertheless:
>
> My situation:
> I have a Workstation with static IP runnning RedHat 9.0. This is the NFS
> Server.
> Secondly I have a singele-chip PC with a flash ROM running RedBoot which
> then loads the Linux Busybox system if not interrupted. This is the client
> system.
>
> What I want to do:
> I'd like to have the client system booting via NFS from the server system,
> so that I can develop software and perhaps alter the operating system for
> the single-chip PC on the server system and thus reducing time for development.
>
> What I'm searching for:
> ... is something like a step-by-step instruction set on how to reach the
> above mentioned system configuration.
> I already read through a lot of how-to's and books, but still I find
> setting up the system quite complicated... - may be I worked to long with M$...
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> tia
> Lars
>
>
>
>
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On Wednesday 27 August 2003 13:59, Lars Meinecke wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm quite new to Linux in general, so may be one or the other question may
> sound quite simple to you. Nevertheless:
>
> My situation:
> I have a Workstation with static IP runnning RedHat 9.0. This is the NFS
> Server.
> Secondly I have a singele-chip PC with a flash ROM running RedBoot which
> then loads the Linux Busybox system if not interrupted. This is the client
> system.
So does your client already do a dhcp- and tftp-request? And would it accept
etherboot-images? If it does it might become rather easy.
>
> What I want to do:
> I'd like to have the client system booting via NFS from the server system,
> so that I can develop software and perhaps alter the operating system for
> the single-chip PC on the server system and thus reducing time for
> development.
>
> What I'm searching for:
> ... is something like a step-by-step instruction set on how to reach the
> above mentioned system configuration.
> I already read through a lot of how-to's and books, but still I find
> setting up the system quite complicated... - may be I worked to long with
> M$...
>
Setting up nfs and tftpboot is really easy. The most difficult part was to
find out als the stuff about etherboot since I didn't find a nice howto.
Getting dhcp properly configured also required some reading.
If I have some more time I will write a nice howto how our cluster works --
our cliens also boot via network, but the server and clients use a shared
root-environment, based on nfsd and clusternfsd, both are running on the
server. Unfortunality there's always so much other stuff to do...
However I already wrote some documentation for the other admins in our group
and that might help Lars a bit. Lars, if you want, you can contact me in
German and ask some further questions :)
Bernd
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