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 =) -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list