We have recently put together the Linux Terminal Server Project
for managing diskless workstations running Linux. Take a look at
http://www.ltsp.org.
> 1)
> I noticed that when I booted linux on a diskless machine (well, it has a
> floppy only) that bootp/rarp will timeout after so much time and give up.
Why are you getting the timeouts on bootp? We don't have
any problem with that, and we have setup hundreds of workstations.
>
> 2)
> W/O changing nfsroot.c (or .h, I forget where it was, I did these mods a few
> months ago) there's no way to change the default nfsroot mount point.
> (Would be nice if it would retry if it gets an error from the server. This
> one I haven't figured out yet <g>).
We have handled the location of the root filesystem by
using the 'rp=' entry in the bootptab file. It works
just fine for us. We setup the root to be /tftpboot/lts/ltsroot
and it boots just fine.
Jim McQuillan
jam@ltsp.org
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