On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 09:37:33PM +0200, Kaspars Melkis wrote: > Hi Lewi, > > > > /usr/bin/mknbi-linux --append "noauto root=/dev/ram0 init=disklessrc > > > NFSROOT=172.16.15.1:/a ramdisk_size=10000 ETHERNET=eth0" vmlinuz > > > initrd.img > vmlinuz.nbi > > > > > thank, that's solve my problem, > > I have try your solution. I fault that specify nfs root with /a/root, the correct one is /a (directory > > that countain root and snapshot dir), and directory for redhat-config-netboot should using > > /a too, the help hint is confusing me, "enter nfs exported dir"-> nfs exported /a/root and /a/snapshot > > > Congratulations! My suggestion for netboot maintainers is to implement > this in redhat-config-netboot. Maybe some checkbox to indicate if the > client machine is PXE or Etherboot and then creating appropriate nbi > image. I would be willing to do myself but, alas, my knowledge of rpm is > limited and I don't know anything about python programming. > > > > and the problem nfs so slow(with error message still retrying), i dunno if this the real problem > > I change/add ethernet 8139too with Full Duplex 100mbps, the old one is using tlan(half duplex 10mbps) > > then just running well > > > > now It's running well, until enter graphical boot > > it show gdm login menu, > > > > but gnome restart again when enter desktop, I found that because memory not enough > > (diskless client compaq deskpro 6000, pentium pro, 65mb, S3 savage) > > > > so I create swap file 256mb and set loop device for that(add script to rc.local) > > so, /dev/loop0 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > but I think it's still slow, > > what can I do to speeding up? or > > just running xinit in diskless client then query from X in server? > > You would not like to run Gnome with only 65 MB RAM. For swap purposes > 100 Mbit link is even slower than hd. And yes, X-terminals is the > answer. Install XFree86-xdm on the server and edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess. > Don't run any services on the clients, configure X to use xfs from the > server, and in inittab change xdm to "X -query <server_ip>". > > I run such setup even on 10 Mbit coax and this works as a charm. Only > video and sound applications don't work in this way. And the server > should get plenty of RAM. > > If you don't run any services on client computers then you even don't > need swap file. BTW, could you make swap file over NFS without kernel > patches? Kernel patching is PITA although Ltsp project provides these > patches. Previously I used ltsp for clients but it was very hard to > customize on client side because of too many differences. I am glad that > I could find a way to use a redhat solution both for the server and the > client. Thanks to RedHat indeed. I found email that explain this, in my rc.local (I still don't experiment how put this in early script) that making swapfile before, then making losetup to /dev/loop0 then running swapon, because in my knowledge that rc.local is running before X, then It's okay by now -- ichtus ------ Lewi Supranata .K ICQ: 50643061 IPLUG Team Homepage : http://mbone.petra.ac.id/u/ichtus GnuPG Public Key : http://mbone.petra.ac.id/u/ichtus/ichtus-keys2
