Re: Stateless Works! but...

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

Hi,

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 17:16 -0600, Carlos Knowlton wrote:

> I finally got a diskless machine to boot from a stateless server!   
> There are a lot of "can't do that on a read-only filesystem" messages, 
> at boot, and I can't login, there must be something I'm missing.

	Where exactly is it breaking?

	Are you sure the snapshot process completed correctly, that the
readonly-root package is installed on the snapshot etc.?

> Is there a "post-image-installation" document describing how to overcome 
> these problems?   Also, I had to figure out how to use the 
> "stateless-servers" command to add the nfs/rsync paths before the cron 
> job would work that configured the client pxelinux files  under 
> /tftpboot.  I may have overlooked it somehow, but shouldn't that be in 
> the tutorial?

	Ah, yes that should be in the tutorial. Patches for the tutorial are
very, very welcome :-)

Cheers,
Mark.