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? -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 19:13:03 up 30 min, 2.6.22-14-generic GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org The real challenge of teaching is getting your students motivated to learn. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080418/66471851/attachment-0004.sig>