Using diskless clients in Fedora 14

[Miner, Jonathan W (US SSA)]

I did not choose to go the DRBL route; it is more than I need, plus I'm constrained to only use "Fedora 14" tools.

The major part missing from the documentation is the fact that multiple client directories are needed, and that PXE is going to look for a variety of files (based on ethernet and IP address) in the pxelinux.cfg directory. Verified by looking at network traffic at boot time.

- Jon
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From: users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Robert Arkiletian [robark at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 17:26
To: Community support for Fedora users
Subject: Re: Using diskless clients in Fedora 14

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Miner, Jonathan W (US SSA)
<jonathan.w.miner at baesystems.com> wrote:
> It's been a while since I've done anything with diskless clients.
>
> I've read and followed the steps Chapter 18 of the "Storage Admin Guide". My cluster (server + 2 nodes) is working, but I have some questions:
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> 1) The docs make it look like all the clients share the same filesystem and mount it read-write. Wouldn't this cause problems? I recall in the older versions there were separate directories for each client.
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> 2) I've tried looking for a concrete examples of setting up a small diskless cluster using Fedora 14.  Has anyone done it?
>

http://drbl.sourceforge.net/