Re: [Clonezilla-live] Boot using pxe and root via samba

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Definitely you can mount cifs during boot,  check this:
http://live.debian.net/other/manpages/live-initramfs.7.html
...
netboot[=nfs|cifs]
    This tells live-initramfs to perform a network mount. The parameter
"nfsroot=" (with optional "nfsopts="), should specify where is the
location of the root filesystem. With no args, will try cifs first, and
if it fails nfs.

Good luck.

Iván Pereiro wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> First of all, thank you for this awesome piece of software.
> 
>  
> 
> I’ve been using clonezilla-live for a bit without problems, just for
> testing or playing :-), but now I’m trying to use for something a bit
> more serious and I have a doubt.
> 
>  
> 
> I don’t want to use DRBL, as we already have a PXE server working, so
> when I try to boot clonezilla-live via pxe, it fails.
> 
>  
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> I found it uses nfsroot to mount the root partition, but our server is
> quite unstable when using nfs so we have to avoid using nfs as much as
> possible.
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> 
> Can we mount root partition via samba (or cifs) during boot, or could we
> have the partition embedded in the image pxe serves via tftpd?
> 
>  
> 
> Thank you.
> 
>  
> 
> Ivan Pereiro.
> 
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