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.

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