On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 12:07:38PM -0500, Nate Carlson wrote:
> 
> I've had relatively low success rates using the NFS root support in the 
> kernel itself, and much better success rates doing a LTSP-style initrd 
> that loads the network card modules, mounts the NFS root filesystem, and 
> then pivot_roots into it. One big advantage of the LTSP initrd image is 
> that it doesn't require a special kernel, too.

IIRC, a standard redhat/fedora kernel will netboot. Drop the kernel and initrd
on your tftp server, set the appropriate options in DHCP then set the syslinux
parameters for an nfs root. Simple enough, took me 15 minutes the last time
I did it (few weeks ago) for a Compaq desktop with a broken IDE controller
that we wanted to use as a thin client =)

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Matthew S. Hallacy                            FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified
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