[Cialug] Trying iSCSI mounting

[David Champion]

In the grand tradition of Linux installs, it will let you do all kinds 
of things that create a broken system.

I'm guessing you should create the / partition on a local disk, and put 
specific mount points on the iSCSI target, like /var or /var/www, and /home.

Surely there's a guide that someone written about how to do this properly.

I've seen people set up init scripts to change mount points for things 
like having your /usr/bin folder on a non-rewriteable CDR disc. If the 
disc wasn't present, it would have a fallback so the system was at least 
marginally usable until you got it corrected.

When I first started using software RAID, the installers would let you 
do all kinds of stupid things that didn't work. I found a guide someone 
had written that gave you the correct way to do it so your system would run.

-dc

Matt Breitbach wrote:
> So I had a great idea (or I thought it was a great idea).
>
> CentOS allows you to specify an iSCSI target when you do your installation.
> I decided to set up everything through the installer to try and point at the
> appropriate devices.  My config is below
>
> SDA - SWAP and /boot partitions
> SDB (iSCSI target) / partition
>
> The install goes fine, all of the data is copied to the iSCSI target, and
> then it tells me to reboot.  It reboots, and I get this error : 
>
> RedHat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting
> iscsistart: transport class version 2.0-071.  iscsid version 2.0-071
> iscsistart: Portal Group not set.  Exiting iscsistart
>
> It then goes on to tell me it can't find the /dev/root , /proc , or /sys
> locations (go figure, they're on the iSCSI system).
>
> I manually configured the installer to use a static IP address, and I
> thought that the iSCSI information that I put into the
> installer/configurator would get passed when I finished the installation.
>
> Is there anything I am missing here?
>
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