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Author:  cantator [ Fri May 01, 2009 3:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Diskless Frontend

I've been trying the diskless frontend venture with R5.5. So far it isn't working.

What I see it doing is creating an NFSroot directory about 85 gigs in size. I don't think that is normal, is it?

Author:  Greg Frost [ Fri May 01, 2009 7:12 pm ]
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No that is not normal. There was an issue at one stage for people who had added a second hard drive. are you in that category? my nfsroot directory is 546M.

See the messages at this point in this thread.
http://knoppmyth.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.p ... &start=165

Author:  cantator [ Sat May 02, 2009 9:53 am ]
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Thanks Greg. I had read through that post yesterday, but with a six year old and a toddler constantly demanding your attention, it's easy to gloss over things!

I had tried to retrieve your newer script yesterday, but the link was down on the server(at your work?). I did get it today, created a knoppmyth2_diskless_frontend.bash, did the install, which successfully created a 346M nfsroot file. Much better than 86G!

Now it is caught in a loop where it is booting from the BE, but the screen flashes by so fast one can't read it. I caught it with my camera:
Trying to load:pxelinux.cfg/etc,etc...
Trying to load:pxelinux.cfg/default
Missing parameter in config file.
Unknown keyword in config file. (X3)
Missing parameter in config file.
Unknown keyword in config file.
Loading vmlinuz-nfsroot.....................................

Then it reboots. So, from what I've been reading, my nic may be configured improperly or such? I'll keep digging. Maybe I'll learn something that can get me a job here in Metro-Detroit! :wink:

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