Thin Client: New User Guide: Network files system

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## 5. Network files system

The Client requests to mount `/tftpboot/`<IP address of client> as its `/` by NFS from server. You must export this from the server,(maybe symlink to /tftpboot/`client` to be safe.)

NFS is a big topic there is a HOWTO and two mini Howto's.

first you need to create a copy of your current system under /tftpboot ken has written two scripts that do all your work, I called them makefirst and makecopy. my first client takes 20-30mb and the copy less. I used du -h to look for large unnecesary files.

see etherboot-4.2/doc/html/diskless-5.html

the following seem to me to be the critical files here

## 5.1 server specific

    #/etc/exports
    /tftpboot/elite             elite(rw,no_root_squash)
    /tftpboot/elite             gordon(rw,no_root_squash)
    /usr                        *.gundog.net(ro)
    /home                       *.gundog.net(rw)
    /mnt/cdrom                  (ro)

    run exportfs -a  to reread the exports file after
    changes /usr/sbin/exportfs --help

    #/etc/sysconfig/network
    NETWORKING=yes
    FORWARD_IPV4="no"
    HOSTNAME="snoball"         <-----------
    GATEWAYDEV=""
    GATEWAY=""

    #/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
    IPADDR="192.168.53.1"            <-----------
    BOOTPROTO=none

## 5.2 client specific

    #tftpboot/elite/etc/fstab
    snoball:/tftpboot/elite    /               nfs rw  1 1
    none                    /proc proc          defaults   0 0
    snoball:/usr           /usr                 nfs     ro  1 1
    snoball:/home          /home                nfs     rw  1 1

    #tftpboot/elite/etc/sysconfig/network
    NETWORKING=yes
    FORWARD_IPV4=nomore
    HOSTNAME=elite
    GATEWAYDEV=
    GATEWAY="192.168.53.1"       <-----------

    #/tftpboot/elite/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
    DEVICE=eth0
    USERCTL=yes
    ONBOOT=yes
    BOOTPROTO=none
    BROADCAST=192.168.53.255
    NETWORK=192.168.53.0
    NETMASK=255.255.255.0
    IPADDR=192.168.53.23         <-----------

#odd fiddles #itemize> #item>fast... #item>cp /usr/bin/xargs /tftpboot/client/bin/xargs #/itemize>

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