CentOS

I have. I still am trying. There's methods in linux to do what you mention above, however i've read online it's more recommended to take a build, pack it into a squashfs image and ship it out. I cannot get the squashfs method to work either with Centos 7.4 however... I'm starting to think that RHEL/...

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I'll be trying the SQFS over NFS method today a bit more and learning about live-mapper calls.

"X client"? xorg-x11-xauth and whatever libs the client package pulls in. That, however, really means X client and that the X server runs somewhere else. SSH tunnels X11, if you have the xorg-x11-xauth. Your "somewhere else" is MS Windows, which does not boast with native X server. Correct. If you ...

Been in the same boat for the past year. Centos / RHEL really doesn't do a 'real' absolute minimum GUI well. I have not found a better method then groupinstalling "X Window" plus other packages on top of that. For reference, here's the method for others in the thread. https://www.centos.org/forums/v...

I've continued research down different methods of TMPFS storage local (devicemapper, overlayfs, rd.live) and still cannot find a workable method for my requirements. I need to have multiple clients booting via PXE (30+) I need to serve root files via NFS (or HTTPS, tftp, ftp etc) I need to do this a...

I recommend checking and regenerating your grub config (what shows up when you start the machine). That is what controls which kernel is loaded. Additionally, once you know the new kernel is effective, you can remove older kernels to save space.

I to have found this to be non-funcitonal with every configuration i've tried.


If you're still looking for a solution to this, i'd be willing to work together on this, i've been at this for months.

Hello, I've been researching and experimenting with a PXE-based live boot method. Currently I'm using root=nfs://, pointing to a directory with a Centos install on a server. Works fine, but I need to have a bunch of clients, so more then 1 accessing the files. So i've been attempting to use RWTAB an...