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Quick and dirty guide to diskless workstations

dhcpd and nfs on the server everytime your server boots. This can usually be

added into the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file (for redhat)

NOTE on sharing files with server

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If you would like to share the binaries or other library files with the server,

add the following entry into the /tftpboot/192.168.0.100/etc/fstab (while at

the server). Note that the "server" in this example has IP address of

192.168.0.1. You should change it to reflect the IP address of your server.

192.168.0.1:/bin /bin nfs

192.168.0.1:/sbin /sbin nfs

192.168.0.1:/usr /usr nfs

192.168.0.1:/lib /lib nfs

Reboot the diskless node. At the bash prompt, type

# mount -av

The contents of the server will now be available on your diskless node.

You can add the "mount -av" into your rc.sysinit.