On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Chris Frost wrote:
> I need to setup several diskless clients, but right now the server has
> several partitions (/, /usr, /usr/local, & /home fwiw). My plan (before
> finding this out) was to create /tftpboot and hard link to the respective
> directories (ie /tftpboot/usr -> /usr).
>
> How should I set things up now, knowing that there a several paritions to
> deal with?
I just exported / on the server. My diskless boxes
mount the server root in /nfsroot then sym-link
everything that is needed. I use netboot which
boots the diskless stations which have their roots
in a ramdisk, then all the sym-links point into
the /nfsroot tree which is where the server root
is mounted.
The diskless boxes share the same password/group
files (read only of course) as the server. These
diskless boxes are host to 64 port Equinox serial
boards for up/down-loading to Numerial Control
(CNC) milling machines.
I wrote a script to build the bare-bones diskless
system and then dump it to /tftbboot/<client-name>
on the server. This way I can replicate the
diskless bootfile (that netboot loads) with
different settings and drivers which are set in
config files that the script reads.
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