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K. Mike Bradley wrote: |
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> I am a little green with Linux but here is a poser for the list . |
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> I am trying to set up a PXE boot to Linux for diskless workstations. |
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> I have PXELinux up and running no problem. |
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> What I need help on is how to make a kernel and initramfs to plug into PXE |
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> Linux. |
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> I know how to use genkernel but what I am after here is not just how to do |
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> it but what to put in the RAMdisk. |
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> In other words I need to build a test machine with minimal file structure so |
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> that I don't have to mount the whole root from an NFS share. |
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> I only want to mount the portions with user persistent data. |
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> Any Ideas? |
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> Thanks. |
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What were you thinking when you were typing this? Some nice formatting |
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would really make reading easier.. |
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Farhan Ahmed |
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