Contents

• Introduction
  • A primer on diskless booting using NFS root
  • One root filesystem
  • Centrally configured, centrally maintained
  
  
• Installation
  • Dependencies and requirements
  • Preparing the master image
  
  
• Booting nodes
  • Traditional diskless NFSroot
  • Booting diskless/diskful/mixed systems with an initramfs
  • Advanced bootstrapping methods
  
  
• Implementation
  • Role abstractions
  • Node deviations
  • Utilization of the RAM disk
  • Inherited behavior (node sub-classing)
  • Boot-time configuration
  • Porting to a new distribution
  
  
• Configuration
  • Specifying the distribution
  • Defining node classes (functional roles)
  • Creating node sub-classes
  • Defining node properties
  • Specifying the RAM disk size
  • Configuring RAM disk elements
  • Using a read-only root filesystem
  • Setting up variant system services
  • Using linkbacks
  • Management of local disks
  • Manually setting a hostname
  • Manually setting a class
  • MATCH_DNS_HOSTS syntax
  • Configuring the power and console interfaces
  • How to make a SPECFORMAT
  • Including extra configuration directives
  
  
• Utility Programs
  • mk-sysimage
  • update-node
  • copy-rootfs
  • mk-initramfs-oneSIS
  • mk-diskful
  • sync-node
  • pwr
  • consl
  • pxe-config
  • myclass
  • myprops
  
  
• sysimage.conf Configuration Directives
• initramfs.conf Configuration Directives
• System image revision control with git, HOWTO