[K12OSN] Test NBD Root?

[Dean Jones]

On 8/12/11 11:15 AM, Burke Almquist wrote:
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> On Aug 12, 2011, at 2:53 AM, Warren Togami Jr. wrote:
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>> https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/wiki/NBDRootConfiguration
>>
>> Could someone please test if the NBD Root boot documentation still
>> works?
>>
>> Warren
>>
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> My Optiplex GX1 (PIII 450 192MB) works out of the box as a client on
> a fresh install of SL6.1. Even the network setup seemed to work fine
> for me. When I enable NBD root instead of NFS, it gets to the login
> screen fine. But when I try to log in, it keeps going back to the
> login screen again. Does NBD require more memory to work?

It is working fine for me with a box with 2gigs ram.  I just followed 
the steps I posted yesterday for a base thin client on NFS, then 
followed the NBD page and it is working.

Maybe it is a mem issue?  But that sounds like it can't mount the user 
home dir or something to me.


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