Re: How to setup SWAP partition for diskless client

[Karsten Brinkmann <kbr@orga.com>]

> 
> How do I set up the SWAP partition for a Linux diskless client using a Linux
> server's diskspace?  Thanks.
> 
You need a special kernel patch to do so. At the moment i've 
forgotten where to get it, look at the etherboot3.2 documentation.

Then, you can create a swapfile on the client's root partition with
dd if=/dev/zero of=/SWAPFILE bs=1k count=20000 
(for a 20 MB swap file).

Then you should do a mkswap /SWAPFILE <filesize> and put a
swapon in the system start scripts of your client.

Again, you need the NFS swap kernel patch to do so.


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