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Chad wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 3/24/06, Bryan Halter <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bhalter@armyofpenguins.com"><bhalter@armyofpenguins.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">What I did was boot off a Gentoo Live CD, mount an NFS share, then do
the Gentoo install as normal. When that was done I put the boot loader
on a USB drive and followed the instructions for booting with an NFS
root. This seems easier than PXE booting as it creates fewer
dependancies on the network. just my $0.02.
--Bryan
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Excellent, thanks! I also thought of going the USB drive route, just
getting like a 1GB cruzer, booting off that, and NFS mounting /usr and
such (probably a NFS root like you said). I opted out of that option
for cost. I'm not using an HD because I don't want to buy one, I've
got a fan in the box so noise is not much of an issue. I don't need
or want a 200GB drive for this frontend machine, but a 40GB drive
costs 60 bucks, where a 200GB costs 80. I've got plenty of storage
already (750GB) I just figured I'd use some of it to be root ( / ) for
systems. I want a 40GB drive for 10 bucks, more in line with the
cost/GB. Anyway... I do appreciate the follow up! I'll either stop
being cheap, or figure this PXE thing out. That or go with the LiveCD
thing I originally thought of doing. PXE is on the top of the list
though, followed by LiveCD (DVD actually) and finally, breaking down
and getting a USB cruzer (small stick or some sort) or full on SATA
harddrive.
Thanks!
Chad
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Just for the record my kernel is booting off of a $10 128MB USB drive.
The NFS root runs off of 1.8GB of the storage in the backend over a
simple 10/100 switched network.<br>
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