Le 17 Novembre 2005 09:30, Donnie Berkholz a écrit : > I set up an NFS-root, PXE-boot cluster about a year ago. I can try to > put my notes together into something usable as a doc, if you'd like.
I am definately interested in any documentation/pointers that could help me get a PXE bootable Gentoo root going. > The basic idea I used was to maintain a couple of ROOT=/foo environments > on the master server: one for the NFS root, and one smaller one with > just busybox and a kernel to create an initrd for each node. The way I see it, multiple Gentoo roots would be available (different machine profiles/optimisation) and they would be specified in the DHCP server's config file as simply as any PXE entry.... So I am not too sure I understand your "couple of ROOT=/foo" _and_ the busybox one... > The ROOT approach is far superior to what's promoted in the NFS root > Gentoo doc, because it allows for a maintainable and differentiated node > system rather than just copying straight from the master's root fs. Didn't know/find such a document specific to Gentoo!....Google to the rescue, I skipped through http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml and I agree that the copying of the master's environment is definately not the approach I would take. But, from what I read, it should be fairly easy to modify the procedure simply to point to a root that is an independant Gentoo tree, into which we can chroot (...limited to compatible arches of course...) and manage the installed packages from there (portage tree could be loop-mounted to avoid duplicating it). Thanks for the info, I'll read the diskless-howto (I presently run LTSP) and see how well it applies. Eric Thibodeau -- [email protected] mailing list
