Re: diskless systems with RHEL 3

The latest version of redhat-config-netboot contains help documentation. 
This describes how to set things up.

In the default configuration /etc/fstab should be shared by all clients 
so updating it there should work.

Alois Treindl wrote:

> Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>
>>   It was not intended to be used that way.  The code is going to look 
>> for a /root directory below the specified shared directory.  So it 
>> when you specify / as the top of the shared directories it will look
>> for /root and /snapshot as being the shared directories.  You would 
>> have to change the scripts to get around this problem.
>> I didn't just share the server OS because of the conflicts of the way 
>> the two server os and client os would work.  For example, the server 
>> needs to run several services that the client doesn't (nfs, tftp).
>> Files like /etc/exports would have to be different.  Sharing of the 
>> /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow of the server is risky.  I would 
>> recommend that you keep them different.
>>
>
>
> OK, I can accept that position.
>
> I still need to mount some shared volumes from the server to each of 
> the diskless clients, i.e. volumes which I cannot duplicate first on 
> the server for use ONLY by diskless clients.
>
> Where do I configure that into the etc/fstab file seen by each 
> snapshot copy, so that EACH diskless clients can mount the same set of 
> additional NFS volumes?
>
> Is there documentaion for redhat-config-netbot somewhere? I searched 
> in vain.
>
> Alois
>
>
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