Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 11:36:14 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: david.groves@imagination.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using PC's as X Terminals Message-ID: <3B024A0E.8030609@i-clue.de> References: <3B011EA3.5234DB81@imagination.com> <3B01C094.204FB92B@imagination.com>
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David Groves wrote: > [snip] > > I also found (http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskless-x/index.html). > It is long time out of date, but if you change most of it to use > Etherboot instead of the remote boot stuff in the FreeBSD core (the > comments in /usr/src/.../wherever/the/remote/boot is suggest removing > that part of the code because of etherboot) then this should still work. > > I'm still worried about the sharing of the file systems by numerous > clients (particularly /tmp and /var), and the security problems of > NFS/TFTP. Any comments ? Create memory disk file systems for /var and /tmp. Since all you want to do is running an X server, this should work. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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