From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 9 07:46:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA12952 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 07:46:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA12921 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 07:46:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA00992; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 16:45:56 +0200 Message-ID: <361E21A4.F4FAB997@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 16:45:56 +0200 From: "José Mª Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del País Vasco - Dept. Electricidad y Electrónica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: "dataless" booting? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I wonder about the possibility of booting FreeBSD in "dataless" mode. I mean that the hard disk is used only for loading the kernel and doing swap, while all the file systems (/, /var [one per client] and /usr [shared]) reside on an NFS server. Is this possible? Another solution could be to store / and /var on the local disk, and mount /usr from the server. In any case, I don't want to boot from the network, because this is supported only with a few network adapters. I read the FAQ and the handbook, but I couldn't find a clear answer to this question. -- JM ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jose M. Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del Pais Vasco | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica | Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-944647700 x2624 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-944858139 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message