Re: stateless wants pxelinux.0

[Carlos Knowlton <cknowlton science edu>]

Mike Herrick wrote:

> Carlos Knowlton wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Anyway, what is the format of the files in the pxelinux.cfg/* files 
> > supposed to be?  what parameters need to be passed to the kernel, etc.  
> > and how is this stuff supposed to be generated?
> >    
>
> I believe that the PXE configuration is supposed to be automatically
> generated by a cron job (which invokes
> /usr/share/stateless/statelessGenPXEConfig.py).  It didn't work for me
> because I didn't have an NFS path set properly.
>
>  

I'm getting a similar message from "statelessGenPXEConfig.py":
"
[root fsix-Server /]# python /usr/share/stateless/statelessGenPXEConfig.py
Unable to get NFS location of DemoSystem snapshot DemoSystem-1
"

Here's my /etc/exports:
"
/home/users *(rw,async)
/src/stateless/snapshots *(rw,async)
"

Does anyone know how the NFS location is supposed to be set up?  Is 
there any more documentation than the Tutorial and the source ( I don't 
speak python very well )?

> If you want to configure it by hand, you can take a look at the pxelinux
> documentation (part of the syslinux installation): 
>
> http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php
>
> Mike.
>
>
>  
I could configure it by hand, but I'm sure I would end up with a 
read-only system that wouldn't function like stateless was designed to 
run (ie, it would be crippled, and act very "read-only-ish").  I get the 
impression that Stateless Linux is supposed to look and act as though it 
were a locally installed fully functional Fedora installation.  I'm  
wondering what configuration in the pxelinux.cfg/ folder facillitates this.


Thanks!
Carlos