Re: Help neeed with the 'diskless' package

[Frederic Dernbach <fredatwork@free.fr>]

One more usefull thing that I just found out :

The client-customized directories are well mounted if the NFS root file 
system is mounted read-only
However, if the NFS root file system is mounted read-write (this is my 
case thanks to my SYSLINUX/PXE boot file), then the customized 
directories are not mounted as expected (as described below).

Any idea why this is ? Is this a 'diskless' bug ?

Fred

Frederic Dernbach a écrit :

> Hello,
>
> I've installed a diskless client using the 'diskless' package of 
> Debian sarge (stable).
>
> I successfully managed to start my diskless client (through PXE and 
> recompiled kernel with appropriate options).The root file system is 
> mounted as expected  by the client though NFS. On my server, I did not 
> chage the defaults proposed by both commands 'diskless-newimage' and 
> 'diskless-newhost' at installation time:
> - the root file system for myclient to NFS mount is : 
> /var/lib/diskless/default/root
> - the customized '/etc' '/tmp' and '/var' directories for my diskless 
> client (with IP adress being 10.1.0.4) are stored in : 
> /var/lib/diskless/default/10.1.0.4
>
> However, during the client boot, the cutomized directories ( 
> /var/lib/diskless/default/10.1.0.4/etc, 
> /var/lib/diskless/default/10.1.0.4/var and 
> /var/lib/diskless/default/10.1.0.4/tmp are not mounted as /etc, /var, 
> /tmp). I believe they should.
>
> What did I miss ? I cannot see which script does the mouting of those 
> customized directories ?
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Fred