<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote"><br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>My current setup is a fedora core 5 box with a large hard drive sitting
<br>under my tv. I'm looking for a way to netboot this entire setup from my<br>server. Space isn't an issue, I'd just need to netboot the myth box and<br>have a copy of its entire hard drive on the server to mount over nfs. Has
<br>anyone done anything like this before? My server is running sarge, and<br>googling hasn't really turned anything. I've seen the fedora core<br>system-config-netboot package but I really just want a copy of myths<br>filesystem stored on the system and that mounted over the network. Any
<br>ideas?<br></blockquote></div><br>There is a lot of info on netbooting, And Ihave read most of it. <br>What i got out of it was "Ohhh my god, this is not for the faint of hart or the Noob"<br><br>For what i can gather is that most people think on netbooting to do away with the HDD noise. I have basically seen two usable ideas.
<br>1. and the most popular is to use a CF (compact flash)card to hold read only copy of the operating system. Then plug this into a cheap CF to IDE converter.<br>this has the advantage of producing no heat and no noise. They say that this works a treat and if you use a low powered frontend , like a Epia M motherboard, most come with the adaptor to boot directly from the CF card.
<br><br>2. Is to do a PXE boot or net boot.<br>Of everything i have seen written, and there is a bit on this list, every one says it can be done, PXE that is, but CF card is easier.<br><br>What i understand it to be is nothing more than the OS being written to a CF card that is pretending to be and IDE drive. I think they then make it read only to save the CF card, as they don't like being written to that often.
<br><br>Don't get me wrong if you can get it to work pleas Post here a detailed how to and we can all benefit. I have not been able to get it to work on the PXE front and i am now saving for a the required hardware to try the CF card low powered front end route.
<br><br>Hope this helps.<br>