Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 18:27:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Gene Stark <gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> To: backplane.com!dillon@bsd7.cs.sunysb.edu Cc: FreeBSD.ORG!jmb@bsd7.cs.sunysb.edu, smith.net.au!mike@bsd7.cs.sunysb.edu, critter.freebsd.dk!phk@bsd7.cs.sunysb.edu, polstra.com!jdp@bsd7.cs.sunysb.edu, FreeBSD.ORG!committers@bsd7.cs.sunysb.edu, time.cdrom.com!jkh@bsd7.cs.sunysb.edu Subject: Re: make.conf Message-ID: <199808302227.SAA09056@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> In-Reply-To: <199808300247.TAA03666@apollo.backplane.com> (message from Matthew Dillon on Sat, 29 Aug 1998 19:47:50 -0700 (PDT))
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> I'm currently booting a diskless workstation via NFS/BOOTP. It mounts > my main server's / and /usr partitions read-only. Works great! The > diskless workstation is even running an almost-complete set of services. > > The only real problem I had was that I had to hook my rc.diskless boot > script nearer to the beginning of /etc/rc so it wouldn't try to mount > non-existant disks and such, and the 'xdm' program tries to create > two log files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm somewhere which I had to > redirect to /var/run/ using softlinks. > > After that it was just a matter of creating MFS filesystems for /var, > /var/run, /var/db, /var/tmp, /dev (tty ownership), and /home. I've been running a lab of about 40 workstations with read-only root and /usr for four years now. It works (I did rewrite the /etc/rc stuff, but it's not high tech), but the main annoyance is certain programs that want to write password-file related stuff in /etc. - Gene Stark
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