Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 11:55:34 +0900 From: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-docs@freebsd.org Subject: 5.3: diskless(8) Message-ID: <418848A6.1060302@yahoo.com>
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Hi, In the manpage of diskless(8), there is: 1) [...zip...] DHCP or BOOTP to acquire configuration information. The boot scripts recognize a diskless startup and perform the actions found in /etc/rc.d/initdiskless and /etc/rc.d/diskless. On older systems, the scripts are located in /etc/rc.diskless1 and /etc/rc.diskless2. [...cut...] However, /etc/rc.d/diskless is not on my 5.3 system; should that be removed here? 2) [...zip...] where <ROOT> is the mount point on the server of the root partition. The script /usr/share/examples/diskless/clone_root can be used to create a shared read-only root partition, but in many cases you may decide to export (again as read-only) the root directory used by the server itself. [...cut...] I actually wonder if the reference to the clone_root script is still recommendable. Since the diskless boot depends on NFS (rather insecure), the diskless setup should be on a trusted network anyway, so why not just advice in diskless(8) to directly mount the root-partition of the master, instead of cloning root. If so, the remark on clone_root may be removed from diskless(8), and the clone_root script itself may be removed as well (the script doesn't work anyway with 5.3). 3) diskless(8) also mentions "/etc/rc.local", which is not in use anymore on 5.3. Regards, Rob.
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