Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 21:12:50 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Booting over the net... Message-ID: <17430481409.20000527211250@buz.ch>
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Hello, I'm very interested in any solutions regarding booting FreeBSD over a LAN. The point is this: we are currently in development of a new serverfarm and would like to cut down administration time as much as possible and here, we think, would central boot servers help quite a bit because those would make it possible to just install new software on them and do a cycled reboot of the other machines. I tried to read through the diskless manual but it seems to be quite old and I'm really not interested in setting up an X workstation. I'd prefer a solution where the servers got their own disks with their respective data and the central bootservers have the complete system including /etc, /usr and the static dirs of /var, so that in fact only /home, /tmp and the changing dirs of /var (logs, queue... it would perhaps be even possible to have them on the bootservers as well) are stored locally. May someone point me to some useable documentation about this topic? Or are there some considerations which make this idea a very bad one? Best regards, Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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