Leopard server and diskless Linux clients?

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Is it possible to boot diskless Linux clients from a Leopard server? If so, how?

I have a setup that uses DHCP to point the Linux client at a TFTP-served PXE stub and kernel, then uses NFS to mount the root filesystem. This is setup assuming that the server is a Linux system, and I’m trying to make it work with Leopard. Interestingly, the TFTP-served boot process works, although the NFS root mount does not – I get errors opening entries in /dev. This makes me think I’m doing something very wrong 🙂

So, in summary – if someone has a working network with diskless Linux clients and a Leopard server, I’d be very interested to learn how they set it up.

Thanks!

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