FAI and diskless clients

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:51:07 +0100, "Andreas B. Mundt" <andi.mundt at web.de> said:

    > After experimenting a bit with the ltsp-server package I, decided to
    > try creating the chroot using FAI.  I managed to boot the diskless
    > client, but due to the nature of the non-writable root file system
    > things did not work satisfactorily. 

    > However, I did not install
    > fai-nfsroot or live-boot in the chroot, just the packages which are
    > used in a default workstation installation. 
I think you do not need fai-nfsroot for diskless clients.

You need something like aufs (another union fs) for making the
read-only nfsroot writeable. The plain Debian kernel includes the aufs module.

    > Is fai-nfsroot / live-boot sufficient or are there more modifications
    > needed?  Are these modifications invasive, so that it might be simpler
    > to use the LTSP packages?   
live-boot supports aufs, but I'm not sure if it also works for
diskless clients.

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regards Thomas