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From: nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Diskless FreeBSD, how?
Date: 14 Jul 1996 18:24:23 +0100
Organization: University of Strathclyde
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Message-ID: <4sbag7$ae3@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk>
References: <4rg5ll$cro@power5.rz.uni-hohenheim.de> <4rgaae$oa9@synge.maths.tcd.ie> <4rmqtl$k1v@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>
>Indeed. I've just done my first diskless setup today, and assuming
>you've got something you can use as a template root file system for
>your clients, i've got the setup in less than 15 minutes.
Couldn't agree more, I, a mere novice in these matters, have managed to
set up two machines in this fashion, an xterm and a "normal" box, both
with local swap. The only problems I had were getting them to use a
common password file and getting them to throw email to the server.
The latter is "easy" to solve given time and the installation of a
mail package superior to sendmail, the latter not so. I thought I could
solve the passwd problem by creating the diskless client's root
filesystems somewhere on the server's root, and creating a hard link
to passwd and friends (since YP is not yet fully functional), but alas
I had not enough space on the server's root for this.
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