[mythtv-users] PXE Network Boot
Mike Isely
isely at isely.net
Thu Mar 13 20:07:42 UTC 2008
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Mitch Gore wrote:
> > > > The reason is that the adapter has already been brought up. If you
> > > > take it down, you've lost your connection to the filesystem.
> > > >
> >
> > The above is exactly right - for a Debian system. Possibly also for any
> > Debian-derived system (e.g. ubuntu). But Fedora sets up networking
> > differently than this.
> >
> > For Debian users, you can also put this into /etc/network/interfaces:
> >
> > auto eth0
> > iface eth0 inet manual
> >
> > That essentially changes eth0 operation into a noop. The reason this
> > might be desirable over simply omitting eth0 is that other parts of the
> > Debian boot process might depend on eth0 actually being up'ed first -
> > triggering the various nearby if-up.d scripts. I hit this problem when
> > trying to set up another NFS client mount.
> >
> > I've been writing up a long page describing all the fun I've had in
> > setting up diskless PXE-booted read-only NFS-rooted frontends. The
> > writeup isn't finished, but the trick above is in there. The URL for
> > the page is here:
> >
> > http://www.isely.net/mythtv_setup.html
> >
> > -Mike
> >
>
>
> No idea on Fedora tho?
>
Nope, sorry. I've been a Debian user for 12 years. And while I messed
with FC5 for a short while, but I'm far too rusty to be helpful there
:-(
-Mike
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