On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 00:02 -0700, clemens at 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. Check Out: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/DisklessClients JohnStanley