RE: [Xen-devel] Diskless boot at cambridge

["James Bulpin" <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> or XenoBoot
>> (now an optional function of the new Xen demo CD).
>
>Is that documented anywhere?

I'm sure Tim Deegan will reply to this. We'll try to get something in
the wiki.

>We have innumerable mount points and so use the automounter (which you
obviously don't use as it is disabled in >>the default config).

We use autofs within the lab cloud and use a userspace NFSd to reexport
this. Some folks dive straight in to machine:/mount/point

>> Root filesystems
>> for diskless systems are either iSCSI, as previously discussed or
NFS.
>
>How would you give a machine a unique persistent initiator-name when
booting from a general cd?

The XenoBoot CD pulls in a boot script which we generally populate with
a case statement based on DHCP host name. Only a couple of our boxes use
iSCSI at the moment so each has a separate hand-crafted boot command
line.

James


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