[CentOS] Diskless Environment

John jses27 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 16 07:57:37 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 12:58 +0530, gopinath wrote:
> Hi
> 
>  according to the configuration defined in the below link i had configured
> on my PC.
> But when i do network boot on diskless Pc.
> 
> It obtains ip from dhcp server
> then it also loads the defaults file in the pxelinux.cfg directory kept on
> the tftp server
> 
> then it displays
> 
> Welcome to Redhat Network Install

Well, what are you after? A Network Install or Diskless Install? If you
want a Diskless Environment then you need to reconfigure your server. Do
you have /etc/exports configured? You need to give a little bit more
info on what you have done so far.

> 
> some snake symbol
> 
> then
> Enter the number of the Operation system for network install
> 
> 0: Local Disk
> 
> boot:
> Loading from the local disk..
> 
> 
> please help me out is there anything extra to be done ..
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Max Hetrick" <maxhetrick at verizon.net>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Diskless Environment
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> > gopinath wrote:
> > > How to configure Diskless environment in CentOS 5.1. Please help me out
> >
> >
> > I have a small guide to setting up an NFS server and then dishing out
> > diskless clients across PXE booting. It's out of date as I've not had
> > time to update it to pertain to CentOS 5.1 explicitly, but it should be
> > relevant and almost the same.
> >
> > <http://www.maxsworld.org/index.php/how-tos/rhel-diskless-clients>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Max
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