Hello, :) you are right. The machine has no disk. Depending of what you might understand under a client (maybe a client program) it also has no client ;-) I did not want to install. I already had a ready installation in a nfs directory. I also could mount this directory when booting the diskless client via pxeboot and the kernel from the tftp server. For some strange reason the switchroot did not work. But yesterday i managed to boot it. So I guess I will figure out, where the very little problem was a write my howto. I did not want to use a program suite for this task, since I only have _one_ client and I have everything I need installed (dhcp, tftp, nfs). So why should I install an additional package, that - in fact - is not needed. But I will take a look at those you sent, maybe these are better or smaller than the others. Regards Cornelius John Summerfied wrote: > Cornelius Koelbel wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I am trying to setup up my clientless machine for two days. > > A clientless machine? > >> >> THere is aboslutely no good howto for this. >> I did it about two years ago, but now it is gone. (I missed to write a >> howto ;-) >> >> I do not want to install using pxeboot, and I do not want to use this >> stateless project. I don't habe an ldap server... >> >> I got everything set up: >> - dhcpd >> - tftp >> - got my own kernel >> - got my initrd >> >> THe machine having no disk is booting fine, loading the kernel from >> tftp, and doing the init from the ram disk. >> >> But when it comes to switchroot or pivot_root i run into problems. >> The initrd, as it comes with FC4 uses nash, where the mount command does >> not support nfs. >> >> So I put several other things in my ramdisk. >> >> The problems I get are either >> A) kernel panic >> B) or a login prompt without the init from the nfsroot beeing >> executed. (Since the screen disappears immediatly I can not see, >> if the >> switchroot was done successfully...) > > > Are you trying to install to NFS from a diskless client? > > I don't think Anaconda supports that. > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux has support for creating filesystems for > diskless clients. If your budget doesn't run to an EL licence, then you > could try one of the several clones which include > Centos (commonly recommended) > WBEL (what I use) > Tao > Google can find them for you. > > >
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