Linux NFS Root and PXE-Boot
Linux kernel hacking and test running on the same machine becomes a major pain. This tutorial explains how to separate the two easily for a quick code-and-test loop. This tutorial explains how to setup a Linux thin client that boots using PXE by pulling a remote Linux kernel image and mounting a remote root file system over NFS. This is only possible if your client machine has a network card that supports this (do you remember seeing some type of option like press N to boot from network just after posting?). I am using Fedora Core 5 as my server, so some of the details may be specific to FC.
Most of the details of setting up the PXE boot server were found at Setting up a PXE-Boot Server.
1) yum install tftp-server dhcp
Make sure you have an NFS server.
2) create /etc/dhcpd.conf
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