On Friday 18 April 2008 17:12:02 John wrote:
The netboot package for version 5 of CentOS/Red Hat is not included in either distro, because it is broken. Attempts to get to a working known state are not looking to good. If using it on CentOS/Red Hat version 4, it will work.
Luckily he still uses version 4.x
Huge difference. Especially in the configuration files. DHCP.CONF is way different, as in you can add in options for each client. Version 4 of ltsp worked booting off of an ethetboot boot image, at least that is what worked for me. Had no PXE compliant NICs on the clients. Also in the client bits that get booted you have options to mount devices on the client machine. There's a configuration file for it. Like for instance you could specify to mount the scanner that is connected to the client. I have had no experiance in mounting devices like that with the netboot package. All you can do is try it and if don't work keep at it.
In my testing, it boots vmware PXE client ok.
Both of the types in question export directories via NFS to the clients. Basically it just boils down to both of them doing the same deed, just a different type of setup situation.
I still have problem with user cannot logon from the diskless because the home directory is read-only. It seems that I have to state that /home/user/ must be writable in files.custom, still bumped though. Maybe my v4.2 has bugs on it.
What makes me frustated is that searching 'diskless' in the vendor knowledge base only returns 5 entries. Can you believe it?