Scyld and fstab for Diskless slaves

[Chip Coldwell]

On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Erik Arjan Hendriks wrote:

> The floppy is really just a generic netboot.  It contains its own
> kernel and ramdisk.  It downloads another kernel and another ramdisk.
> The download works via TCP because TFTP is flaky under load.  TCP will
> fall down too at some point but it will do so later than TFTP and it
> was easy to implement for a first cut.

Let me see if I understand you correctly: each node initially boots
from floppy and then goes through a sort of second-stage boot that
sets up the ramdisk, etc., is that right?  So a local floppy disk is
required on every node?

Have you ever tried doing this with PXE?  Or does the PXE reliance on
tftp (even multicast tftp) make it undesirable?

Chip

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