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PostPosted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 4:13 pm 
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How do I install Knoppmyth to a specific directory on an existing Linux installation? I'm experimenting with network booting from a completely disk-less system.

I don't have enough hard drives to install Knoppmyth onto a dummy drive and then transfer it over manually.

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Frank


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short answer you don't.

if you are looking for network boot unless it's of utmost importance you might want to just wait for R5.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 6:12 pm 
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erm... ok

...meanwhile I ended up getting it working without too much fuss. But thanks for your opinion anyways. Here were the basic steps for those wondering:

- install to a separate partition on the hard drive where the existing distribution already resides (in this case, SLES 9.0). LILO will overwrite the original boot-loader, but that's no big deal.

- boot into Knoppmyth and setup as required (SLES happens to be on identical hardware I use for the Knoppmyth box)

- use a simple live linux CD (Knoppix, SuSE, Gentoo, etc.) to restore the original boot loader

- boot into the original OS, mount the Knoppmyth partition into the filesystem

- create basic initrd and pxeboot arrangement for network boot

voila, works perfectly. Most of the system is mounted read-only, and then the /myth directory is brought in via NFS from the network-loaded Knoppmyth (so /myth can be mounted read/write). For shutting down, I made sure NFS was turned off only AFTER mythbackend and mysql, so no database corruption occurs.

Frank


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