Benedikt Thelen wrote:
Hi I'm trying to deploy diskless OpenSuSE clients at my workplace. The idea is to boot the computers via PXE and then load a complete OpenSuSE via NFS. Yet I tryed to build my own initrd and it works, sometimes and sometimes not :-(, especially some programms like Openoffice do not work. I'm sure that there may be an other possibility of booting opensuse via nfs using the existing initrd's of the opensuse project.
Hi Benedikt I'm doing something similar - booting machines via PXE, but with root filesystem on a SAN connected via fibre. What you're trying to do should work perfectly fine.
but in my case I need serveral computers using the same resources an that means that all files on the nfs mus be readonly (especially lock and pidfiles must be independently on the machines).
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