Re: looking for diskless advice

[Chuck Tuffli <chuck_tuffli@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
[...]
>      Note that you can setup a server to export the ISO release image with 
>      NFS, and machines diskless-booted with that will operate just as if you
>      had booted from CD.   What I would do is cpdup an ISO into a directory
>      on your NFS server, set up a DHCP server if you don't already have one,
>      and then modify the image so diskless-booted machines come up with a
>      working network, sshd, and key so you can access them remotely from the
>      server without any manual work on their consoles.  Then automate the 
>      installation using ssh/scp/scripts from the server.

Using your dhcpd.conf as a guide (thanks btw), I was able to setup a
single machine to PXE boot. Getting from there to customizing the image
for each machine to PXE boot was getting complicated. The above sounds
like a better solution. Thanks to all for the advice!

---chuck