[Voyage-linux] Different PXE Server

[Gustin Johnson]

What platform are you using for the NFS server?

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:43 PM, John Schultz <jschultz0614 at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, loading the SystemRescueCD from PXE via HTML or TFTP will not work
>
>> The client needs the sysrcd.dat file. If you use HTTP or TFTP for the
>> third stage, then sysrcd.dat will be downloaded into RAM so the client has
>> to have enough memory (estimated requirement: 400MB). If you use either
>> NFSv3 or NBD then you don't have this memory requirement and the client will
>> make permanent requests to the server each time it needs a file from the
>> root filesystem.
>
> So I definitely HAVE to use NFS or NBD. Only problem I have come up with so
> far is that I have not been able to figure this out yet.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 17:37, John Schultz <jschultz0614 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The dat file needed is 297MB Im going to try and mount it remotely,
>> however, I do not believe I will have enough RAM free.
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 16:55, John Schultz <jschultz0614 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hopefully the file being loaded after the PXE process is loaded will all
>>> total less then 256MB otherwise, this will not work either :(.
>>>
>>> I will know more shortly
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:06, Gustin Johnson <gustin at meganerd.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The systemrescuecd PXE boot environment is only 14 MB, with the rest
>>>> mounted over NFS.
>>>
>>>
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