How to configure Diskless environment in CentOS 5.1. Please help me out Regards, Gopinath M Signal Networks Pvt. Ltd. Smile... it increases your face value! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080410/bf9d216c/attachment-0001.html>
On 10/04/2008, gopinath <gopinath at signal-networks.com> wrote:> > How to configure Diskless environment in CentOS 5.1. Please help me out >Diskless? Like in no floppy / thumb drives or diskless like in network booting? -- Regards, Sudev Barar Read http://blog.sudev.in for topics ranging from here to there.
gopinath wrote:> How to configure Diskless environment in CentOS 5.1. Please help me out >If you want a thin client setup (diskless machines only run X and log into the server), the easy way is to install the k12ltsp version that has a centos base (version 5-EL from the download link here http://k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page). If you want to NFS mount disks from the server and run everything on the clients or boot a single image on a cluster, look at http://drbl.sourceforge.net/. You can do either of these with the tools included in Centos yourself, but since it is fairly complicated it is probably worth trying one or both of these first. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 17:30 +0530, gopinath wrote:> How to configure Diskless environment in CentOS 5.1. Please help me > out >Have a look at The Linux Terminal Server Project. http://www.ltsp.org/ That's is about the easiest configuration out. You can use rsync to make the Client OS Layout and manually edit all files as needed, pxe dhcp nfs and tftp. It's a nightmare to do. An alternative method would be obtain the "system-config-netboot" package from Fedora Core 6 or 7 that's if you can get it to work correctly. Red Hat omitted it in v5.0 and also I think in 5.1. Bugzilla on red hat says they are going to release it in a later release. IMHO I believe it is getting replaced by cobbler. Any one on the list know for sure?> Regards, > Gopinath M > Signal Networks Pvt. Ltd. > > > Smile... it increases your face value! > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-- ~/john OpenPGP Sig:BA91F079
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 gopinath wrote:> How to configure Diskless environment in CentOS 5.1. Please help me outI have a small guide to setting up an NFS server and then dishing out diskless clients across PXE booting. It's out of date as I've not had time to update it to pertain to CentOS 5.1 explicitly, but it should be relevant and almost the same. <http://www.maxsworld.org/index.php/how-tos/rhel-diskless-clients> Regards, Max -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH/h66IXSX/6LmsXkRAusTAJ46JmTQ/hlZU9jTz3oE+Uj+iml/ZgCfXMlY 3z719a1JbS3xlFt/r0g/V38=x88X -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Hi > > according to the configuration defined in the below link i had configured > on my PC. > But when i do network boot on diskless Pc. > > It obtains ip from dhcp server > then it also loads the defaults file in the pxelinux.cfg directory kept on > the tftp server > > then it displays > > Welcome to Redhat Network Install > > some snake symbol > > then > Enter the number of the Operation system for network install > > 0: Local Disk > > boot: > Loading from the local disk.. > > > please help me out is there anything extra to be done .. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Max Hetrick" <maxhetrick at verizon.net> > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:35 PM > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Diskless Environment > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > gopinath wrote: > > > How to configure Diskless environment in CentOS 5.1. Please help meout> > > > > > I have a small guide to setting up an NFS server and then dishing out > > diskless clients across PXE booting. It's out of date as I've not had > > time to update it to pertain to CentOS 5.1 explicitly, but it should be > > relevant and almost the same. > > > > <http://www.maxsworld.org/index.php/how-tos/rhel-diskless-clients> > > > > Regards, > > Max > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQFH/h66IXSX/6LmsXkRAusTAJ46JmTQ/hlZU9jTz3oE+Uj+iml/ZgCfXMlY > > 3z719a1JbS3xlFt/r0g/V38> > =x88X > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > >