Re: diskless systems with RHEL 3
Daniel J Walsh <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.taroon |
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Alois Treindl wrote: >Sorry to follow up on my own question. >I have found and installed redhat-config-netboot and believe to >understand how it can be used to setup a directory for diskless clients to >boot from. > >Questions: >a) will several diskless clients be able to share the same OS copy? > If yes, where are those files kept wich differ from client to client, > e.g. logfiles or network configuration files? > Yes several diskless clients share the same partition. Those files are kept on the server. There are two different NFS filesystems. One r/o for the the / partition which is shared between all clients and then a r/w /snapshot directory which contains each clients non-shared files. > >b) How can such a diskless client installation be kept up2date? >Will it be sufficient to run 'up2date' on one (of several >identical) diskless clients? > > > > The easiest way to keep the clients up2date is to chroot on the server and run up2date. >-- >Taroon-beta-list mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-beta-list > > -- Taroon-beta-list mailing list [email protected] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-beta-list