<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Steven Adeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com">adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello all!<br>
So I've got two frontends that I would like to network boot with PXE<br>
as diskless frontends. I've read many a web article on this, but none<br>
give any information on how to manage multiple clients like this where<br>
each client is allowed to have it's own separate "settings" so to<br>
speak.<br>
<br>
has anyone done this? what is the key to setting up multiple diskless<br>
frontends that all boot from the same server but have separate<br>
environments?<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>I went down this same route about 2 years ago. It was a bit of a pain in the butt, but I finally got a diskless, netbooting frontend running on a fedora (6 I think?) system. After using that for a bit, and pulling out a little more of my hair each time I needed to upgrade something, I finally discovered minimyth. It was originally designed to run on EPIA hardware, but works great on a lot of hardware now. It is specifically designed to run on diskless machines, either netboot or booting from local media (like a CF card or USB thumbdrive). It is quite configurable using just the basic config file and, if that's not enough, you can configure pretty much anything on the system using the <a href="http://minimyth.pm">minimyth.pm</a> perl config script.<br>
<br>I would highly recommend giving it a look before spending too much time trying to build your own diskless system. If you already have a netboot server and all the required infrastructure (DHCP, TFTP, etc) setup then it's fairly trivial to boot up a minimyth image and try it out. You can find the files and info at <a href="http://www.minimyth.org">http://www.minimyth.org</a>.<br>
<br>Good luck, hope that helps you out.<br><br>Brad<br><br>