From owner-cvs-all Sun Aug 30 18:23:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA02146 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 18:23:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from bsd7.cs.sunysb.edu (bsd7.cs.sunysb.edu [130.245.1.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02140; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 18:23:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by bsd7.cs.sunysb.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with UUCP id VAA11553; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 21:21:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gene@localhost) by starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) id SAA09056; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 18:27:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 18:27:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199808302227.SAA09056@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> From: Gene Stark 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 In-reply-to: <199808300247.TAA03666@apollo.backplane.com> (message from Matthew Dillon on Sat, 29 Aug 1998 19:47:50 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: make.conf Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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