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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!nic.hookup.net!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!deep.rsoft.bc.ca!giant!a09878 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 Lines: 15 Message-ID: <a09878.759716595@giant> NNTP-Posting-Host: giant.rsoft.bc.ca 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 -- Curt Sampson a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca Fluor Daniel 604 691 5458 1444 Alberni Street Vanouver, B.C., V6G 2Z4 "Small cows work best." --Ty Bower