On Jan 5, 2009, at 11:02 PM, clemens@dwf.com wrote:
Im trying to get a diskless boot set up under CentOS 5.2, and having no luck at all.
I am to the point of running system-config-netboot, and whatever information I put in, I get an error message.
Responding to the 2nd button on the first popup, which asks for NFS info, I put in the IP address of the current machine (the machine that will hold the boot images for the diskless machine) and the root directory for the diskless machine, viz
/diskless/i386/CentOS5.2/root
Which has a copy of my root file system, and in particular has a /boot subdirectory. When hitting FORWARD, I get the error message:
The diskless subdirectory must be NFS exported and contain a boot subdirectory.
Now Ive checked, vsftpd is running, nfs is running, and the above directory (and others) are in the /etc/exports file.
I did this several years ago under Fedora, and dont remember having problems like this. Has ANYONE done this recently, and do you remember what you had to do??? I would REALLY like to exchange some e-mail with you. It would be nice if there was an example somewhere.
-- Reg.Clemens reg@dwf.com
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I remember getting something similar when the file and directory permissions were not set properly (and/or export permissions). So even when the boot directory exists, correct permissions to view or use it were not set properly. I didnt track down any information regarding the exact settings required for diskless boot, however when I copied the nfs export to a new export and chmod to world readable, then i got past the gui errors. I stepped back, adjusted the boot and then got the diskless client booting, however there were a few other things regarding permissions, home directories, and whatnot that also caused failure to boot, or get x started. Ill check out the wiki and see if anyone posted the information for file permissions, would be nice to get this going again.'
Trevor