Derek Tattersall wrote:
Craig White wrote:
On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 17:16 -0400, Derek Tattersall wrote:
I have a large desktop running F7 , the 64 bit version. I also have a
few bits and pieces of 32 bit hardware lying around, that I could
make into a diskless X-terminal. I have been reading up on tftp and
pxeboot and the kernel docs, and I think I can figure out how to set
up the client machine as a diskless X-terminal, but I am perplexed by
one thing.
What is the best way to set up the root file system? I want to set up
a series of subdirectories on my main machine with the root file
system, /bin, /lib, /etc, etc. I would like that to be 32 bit F7. I
would then export those directories by NFS for the diskless client to
use. Is there a way to unpack the F7 rpms into these subdirectories?
I don't want to set up an entire partition for this, and go through
the entire partitioning and install procedure. I just want to use a
portion of the existing disk.
Is there an easy way to do this? I have a vague memory that you could
do this with slackware (this was back in the mid 90's - all my
memories of that time are vague), is there a way to do this with Fedora?
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http://www.ltsp.org
Not quite what I had in mind.
I was looking for a way to install Fedora on the File server.
I'd expect much better performance with the ltsp approach (running only
X on the client with the desktop and apps on the faster machine) than
you would have running the 2nd machine as a workstation with everything
mounted via NFS.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
