From: Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@web.de>
Subject: Re: Problems getting started with booting via NFS
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:08:56 +0200
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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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