[Cialug] Fedora Install TO an NFS mount

[Tom Pohl]

That looks like a really cool trick!  Unfortunately, it looks like I  
still need to start out with an installed client (a i586 client in my  
case) to create the environment.

Dave's idea looks really viable, but I don't feel like figuring out  
all of the packages needed to do a manual install. :)

I suppose I'll just have to break out the 4gb microdrive and do an  
old fashioned install BUT I think i'll turn that install into a  
system-config-netboot root so once I get it going, I can add 20  
gajillion more clients!

-Tom


On Nov 12, 2006, at 9:00 PM, Paul Gray wrote:

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> On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 06:10:33PM -0600, Dave Weis wrote:
>>
>> Tom Pohl wrote:
>>> I'm trying (for laziness sake) trying to network install a diskless
>>> workstation to an nfs mount without needing to resort to using a  
>>> compact
>>> flash or other removable media.  I had imaged another server to  
>>> use as
>>> my nfs root but after much troubleshooting realized that my  
>>> diskless box
>>> is a i586 processor and my nfs root is 686 based.  I've tried  
>>> dropping
>>> to a shell and mounting my nfs volume manually, but the installer
>>> doesn't recognize it as a valid destination.  I've even mounted  
>>> my 686
>>> nfs root (thinking that when it detects previous installations it  
>>> would
>>> be found) with no luch.
>>
>> You will probably have to do the install yourself, make the  
>> typical root
>>  directories, do rpm --install --root /nfsroot/ basesystem-x.rpm and
>> keep installing packages until it works. Make sure you don't  
>> forget the
>> --root or bad things will happen. You could probably use rpm  -qa  
>> --qf
>> %{NAME}\\n with some magic to determine which RPM's you want to  
>> install.
>>
>
>
> Another option that you might try, is system-config-netboot in an  
> RPM-based
> distro (which seems to be your case).  It allows a single server to  
> dish out
> pre-established images on-the-fly and save the state across reboots.
> You'll want a PXE-boot, and tftp server, and a pre-rolled image.   
> Once you have
> these three things, you have the capability of rolling out any  
> number of
> systems on the fly.
>
> (/me does bootless clusters in this manner, but with a Debian twist.)
>
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