I know that rhel 5 has some infrastructure to support stateless linux. In a nutshell, we can modify /etc/sysconfig/readonly-root and /etc/rwtab to specify what should be mounted with a tmpfs partition. mkinitrd can be used to create an initrd that can mount an NFS export and switchroot into it. The difficulties users may have setting it up consists of configuring the server, and installing the OS into a directory so that it can be exported.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StatelessLinux/HOWTO?highlight=%28stateles s%29 written mostly by Jeffery Law from Red Hat contains quite a bit of useful information on how to set things up. Personally, I opted to skip the cobbler and puppet, and configured the server manually. Jeffrey Law is probably the best person to ask to find the status of Fedora Stateless. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miroslav Tomic Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Stateless Linux? Good question, Shawn. I would like to know that too. Regards --- Shawn Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the current state of $subject? > > In going through the mailing list archives I've > noticed a few unanswered > postings, and the Wiki states "...concentrating on > for FC7 is the basic > infrastructure," which gives me the impression it > hasn't been updated in > awhile. > > So -- what is the status of the project? Has it > been dropped? > > -- > Shawn D. Wells > Solutions Architect, Federal Team > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cell: 443-534-0130 > Office: 703-748-2250 > > _______________________________________________ > Stateless-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/stateless-list > ________________________________________________________________________ ____________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ _______________________________________________ Stateless-list mailing list [email protected] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/stateless-list _______________________________________________ Stateless-list mailing list [email protected] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/stateless-list
