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diff --git a/extensions/nfsboot.write.help b/extensions/nfsboot.write.help new file mode 100644 index 00000000..186c479a --- /dev/null +++ b/extensions/nfsboot.write.help @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +# Copyright (C) 2014, 2015 Codethink Limited +# +# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +# the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. +# +# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +# GNU General Public License for more details. +# +# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along +# with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. + +help: | + *** DO NOT USE *** + - This was written before 'proper' deployment mechanisms were in place. + It is unlikely to work at all, and will not work correctly. + + Use the pxeboot write extension instead + + *** + Deploy a system image and kernel to an nfsboot server. + + An nfsboot server is defined as a baserock system that has + tftp and nfs servers running, the tftp server is exporting + the contents of /srv/nfsboot/tftp/ and the user has sufficient + permissions to create nfs roots in /srv/nfsboot/nfs/. + + The `location` argument is the hostname of the nfsboot server. + + The extension will connect to root@HOST via ssh to copy the + kernel and rootfs, and configure the nfs server. |