Re: Diskless Debian PCs / Network Boot

2004-07-26 Thread John Summerfield
Salman Haq wrote: I've gotten so far as actually getting a client to boot by using PXELinux. Since the client is actually diskless, the boot process stops when the kernel tries to mount a filesystem - that results in a kernel panic as expected. I'm considering using a RAM disk image or NFS to

Re: Diskless Debian PCs / Network Boot

2004-07-26 Thread Salman Haq
I've gotten so far as actually getting a client to boot by using PXELinux. Since the client is actually diskless, the boot process stops when the kernel tries to mount a filesystem - that results in a kernel panic as expected. I'm considering using a RAM disk image or NFS to remotely mount the

Re: Diskless Debian PCs / Network Boot

2004-07-12 Thread Patrick Ouellette
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am trying to build a network of Debian PCs which must be diskless. The idea is that every once in a while the clients can be booted (may be remotely?) to download an upgraded kernel. Previously, we have used removable hard drives - very time consuming. From br

Re: Diskless Debian PCs / Network Boot

2004-07-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 10:48, Salman Haq wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to build a network of Debian PCs which must be diskless. > The idea is that every once in a while the clients can be booted (may > be remotely?) to download an upgraded kernel. Previously, we have used > removable hard dri

Diskless Debian PCs / Network Boot

2004-07-12 Thread Salman Haq
Hi All, I am trying to build a network of Debian PCs which must be diskless. The idea is that every once in a while the clients can be booted (may be remotely?) to download an upgraded kernel. Previously, we have used removable hard drives - very time consuming. From browsing around, I've come