06-06-2004
Network Install PXE/BootP/TFTP
Im trying to help my professor at school, were trying to setup a linux server, that is configured with bootp/tftp/PXE. the client computer NICs have support to boot off PXE. What we would like to do is if a client computer does not have an OS, it would boot off the server, and display a menu to the end user, the menu will display a list of Operating Systems to install on the local system, including Slackware, Redhat, Mandrake, Freebsd, Windows 2000, etc. The end user just has to pick one and it will bring up the installation of that OS on the local computer and will get all the files that it needs to install from the file server, the file server will be running samba, nfs, ftp, httpd. How would i go about setting this type of envroment up. thankyou =)
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nfsstat
NFSSTAT(1) BSD General Commands Manual NFSSTAT(1)
NAME
nfsstat -- display NFS statistics
SYNOPSIS
nfsstat [-cemoszW] [-M core] [-N system] [-w wait]
DESCRIPTION
The nfsstat command displays statistics kept about NFS client and server activity. For the NFSv4 server, the statistics are for operations
within the Compound RPCs and not the count of RPCs. If you wish to compare RPC counts between NFSv3 and NFSv4, you must use statistics in
the client(s).
The options are as follows:
-c Only display client side statistics.
-e Report the extra statistics collected by the new NFS client and server for NFSv4. This option is incompatible with -o.
-M Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core instead of the default /dev/kmem.
-m Report the mount options for all new NFS client mounts. This option overrides all others and nfsstat will exit after completing the
report. This option is only supported by the new NFS client.
-N Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default /boot/kernel/kernel.
-o Report statistics for the old NFS client and/or server. Without this option statistics for the new NFS client and/or server will be
reported.
-s Only display server side statistics.
-W Use wide format with interval short summary. This option is especially useful when combined with -c or -s and a time delay.
-w Display a shorter summary of NFS activity for both the client and server at wait second intervals.
-z Reset statistics after displaying them.
FILES
/boot/kernel/kernel default kernel namelist
/dev/kmem default memory file
SEE ALSO
fstat(1), netstat(1), ps(1), systat(1), sysctl(3), iostat(8), nfsdumpstate(8), pstat(8), vmstat(8)
HISTORY
The nfsstat command appeared in 4.4BSD.
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