Hi
We like to build Diskless clusters. Where should we go to know how to build Diskless X server running in Centos6.2?
Y.Nishimura
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:54 PM, nishi.plala ilovefd@topaz.plala.or.jp wrote:
We like to build Diskless clusters. Where should we go to know how to build Diskless X server running in Centos6.2?
DRBL (http://drbl.sourceforge.net/) will do a 'fat' client that NFS-mounts the server so you have the option of running things locally. There is also the k12linux project that bundles LTSP5. I'm not sure if the Centos port was ever completed, but there is some information here: https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/wiki/2011FundDrive.
Hi
DRBL (http://drbl.sourceforge.net/) will do a 'fat' client that NFS-mounts the server so you have the option of running things locally.
Thak you. I am interested in DRBL. I will checkit. This is what I want.
On 09/15/2012 05:54 AM, nishi.plala wrote:
Hi
We like to build Diskless clusters. Where should we go to know how to build Diskless X server running in Centos6.2?
just pxe boot the livecd ?
I too would suggest PXE booting the Live CD (I've done it with other distros) - which brings me to the following questions regarding CentOS.
RHEL write up [9] - also you might look at the Fedora docs below.
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I found [0] and [7], but I'm curious if there is _any other method_.
Bits of Fedora discussion [1] [2] [3] Fedora Docs [8] - basically copy files from a running system Fedora dracut-network [4] Amahi netboot [5] Diskless (MythTV related, but applicable) [6]
I've used an unmodified ISO by loading it into memory via memdisk and while that works ok it requires plenty of memory for the image. (But it does not require any alteration done to the squashfs image.)
I've netbooted live Debian (and variants) off an NFS export (my reading shows HTTP and FTP are an option too). I didn't succeed pulling Fedora or CentOS images from NFS though.
Just curious. (It would really rock if it was possible to load the squashfs over NFS or HTTP rather than TFTP.)
[0] https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/wiki/PxeBoot [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.livecd/4809 [2] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/livecd/2011-November/006972.html [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PXE-NFS_Boot_LiveCD [4] http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/fedora-diskless-work... [5] http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Fedora_14_network_install [6] http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Diskless_Frontend [7] http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/DisklessClients [8] http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Storage_Administration_Gu... [9] http://rags.wordpress.com/tag/diskless/
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On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
On 09/15/2012 05:54 AM, nishi.plala wrote:
Hi
We like to build Diskless clusters. Where should we go to know how to build Diskless X server running in Centos6.2?
just pxe boot the livecd ?
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On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 1:24 PM, SilverTip257 silvertip257@gmail.com wrote:
I too would suggest PXE booting the Live CD (I've done it with other distros) - which brings me to the following questions regarding CentOS.
RHEL write up [9] - also you might look at the Fedora docs below.
*** To anyone else who may know: ***
I found [0] and [7], but I'm curious if there is _any other method_.
If you haven't looked at drbl, it is mostly a collection of scripts that set up the native tools in an assortment of ways. It can boot into one of the clonezilla-live isos as an alternative to the stock (server native) mode or into the installer images for several distributions. I don't think the scripts accommodate generic live-cd images, but it might not be too hard to add support. I've always thought it would be nice to PXE-boot straight into an NX client without needing NFS mounts, but haven't needed it badly enough to set something up.
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