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From: Dave Oxley <dave@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Netboot questions
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 01:39:59
Message-Id: 4637EA88.70606@daveoxley.co.uk
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4 I have a EMT64 server that runs a mythtv backend as well as other things
5 and a AMD64 mythtv frontend which has been running with its own hard
6 disk and therefore install of Gentoo for sometime. I am looking at
7 building another frontend without a disk so I thought I'd experiment
8 with my current frontend. I have managed to get it booting using PXE, I
9 copied the hard disk contents to a directory on my server and followed
10 the rest of the howto, but I have the following questions/problems:
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12 1. I can still compile/emerge on the frontend but its very slow as its
13 on NFS. Can I compile on the server by chrooting? Basicallly I want to
14 know if I can compile on EMT64 targeting AMD64. The frontend was
15 installed with stage 1 so I guess the compiler won't even run in a
16 chroot'ed environment.
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18 2. The Gensplash is compiled into the kernel. It appears at startup with
19 the 'Initialising kernel' screen but the progress bar never appears. It
20 just shows that screen until X is started. Any ideas what might be wrong
21 here or where I should start to look?
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23 3. My DHCP server issues static routes, but since I've made the frontend
24 boot over PXE (static IP address) it never gets the routes. Any ideas?
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26 Cheers for any help,
27 Dave.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Netboot questions Jan Seeger <jan.seeger@×××××.com>