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From: a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: "Diskless" Workstations and NIS
Date: 28 Jan 94 00:23:15 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! Communications Corp
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Message-ID: <a09878.759716595@giant>
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I'm looking to set up a "diskless" NetBSD 0.9 station that would boot
the kerenel from the floppy and get everything else it needs from an
NFS server. Is anyone else doing this? Is it easy to mount one's root
volume via NFS? What do I do about swap?

Also, there seems to be no NIS server available for NetBSD 0.9. What
would you recommend as a similar system for keeping a common set of
/etc/passwd information and the like?

cjs
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