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Nice, thanks! |
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I should have waited to send the message - I made a /init that exec's |
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/sbin/init (maybe I can just symlink them?), removed any auto lines from |
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/etc/fstab, and it worked like a charm. |
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This is flippin' sweet. I can netboot into a re-imager, netboot into a |
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rescue system, netboot into a BIOS updater (if I dare), netboot into a |
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security thingie, or netboot a diskless webhead, just by changing a symlink |
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and rebooting the target system (with IPMI if necessary). |
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Thanks for the pointer to ThinStation, by the way, that looks really |
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instructional, a cool project, and maybe useful at home. |
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Cheers, |
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Peter |
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Stanley Brinkerhoff <stan@××××××××××.com>wrote: |
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> I use ThinStation on ~50 thin client PC's which operates as you describe. |
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> Stan |
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> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Peter Abrahamsen <rainhead@×××××.com>wrote: |
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>> Hi all, |
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>> I got the crazy idea to boot my servers purely from netboot with their |
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>> root filesystems being initramfs archives coming from tftp on pxeboot. |
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>> Is this reasonable? I tried just passing a cpio of my desired root |
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>> partition as the initrd option, but it ended up using my hdd as root, I |
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>> think because my initramfs didn't have a file at /init. Everyone else seems |
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>> to just use their initramfs in order to boot something else, like nfs, but |
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>> I've got plenty of RAM and don't really want to introduce the additional |
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>> complexity and latency of NFS. |
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>> Anyone done anything like that? |
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>> Thanks, |
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>> Peter |
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