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How-to / Re: how to deploy via NFS?

« on: October 11, 2012, 06:16:15 AM »

recovery most definitely would be needed since these students are being taught how to handle and manage their own laptops.

our staff will deploy to over 4000 netbooks. preferably over NFS. currently we can put a 20GB windows WIM image down to a machine in about 4 minutes over our current setup and my WDS setup.

in this scenario using flash drives is actually a hindrance.

was there a version of UBERMIX that worked over NFS? i tried 0.9 and that one gave me the same errors. if there is a previous build that worked, i could use that and just apply updates to bring it up to date with an NFS working kernel and initrd.

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How-to / Re: how to deploy via NFS?

« on: October 10, 2012, 06:39:14 AM »

anyone? is there anyone that can give some kind of support for this distro?
or point me in the right direction as to why i can boot various other distros from NFS except this one.

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How-to / how to deploy via NFS?

« on: October 08, 2012, 01:45:40 PM »

the WIKI shows very little information on this.
i have a WDS/syslinux hybrid pxe environment serving up Windows Deployment Services and multiple
linux utilities and distros with no problems.

the problem is we're going to deploy ubermix to about 3000 laptops and i haven't been able to even get it to boot from NFS.

NFS sharing is setup on windows server 2008 r2 and permissions are blown wide open for testing purposes.
here's my menu entry.

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LABEL ubermix
            MENU LABEL Ubermix (notworking)
            kernel linux\ubermix\vmlinuz
            append initrd=linux/ubermix/Uberinitrd.gz storage=***.***.***.***:/nixnfs/ img=ubermix nofog

the WIKI doesn't state which kernel to use. the error msg i receive is :

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*Checking Operating System ...........Linux
*Checking CPU cores .......................1
*Send Method..................................NFS

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#       AN ERROR HAS BEEN DETECTED!
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Fatal Error: Unknown Request type :: NULL

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#     Computer will reboot in 1 minute.
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that's all. no specific error or anything.

can anyone help? i've been working on this issue for a week with no progress.