Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 09:25:22 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: beginnings of a diskless boot sequence being committed Message-ID: <199901250825.JAA26243@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199901250902.BAA02600@apollo.backplane.com> from "Matthew Dillon" at Jan 25, 99 01:02:17 am
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> :> Basically this consists of a bit of code in /etc/rc and, later tonight, > :> an /etc/rc.diskless script ( a new script ). > : > :before you reinvent the wheel, have you looked at my code in > :http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/diskless981113/ ... > I was basically just cleaning up stuff I've been using for several > months. me too :) > Your stuff looks quite similar. > > What I propose is that a new kernel sysctl variable be added called > 'kern.conf_dir' which the kernel initially sets to nothing. ok, i can only suggest that if you replace the sysctl kern.conf_dir variable with a shell variable as i did, you can achieve a more portable result (this also in light of Jordan's idea of having a 2.2S CD being made... putting patches for diskless into some 'xperimnt' directory would be helpful). Other than that, i have no objections, and i am very glad you raised the issue since i am using diskless machines a lot! I haven't seen how you suggest to build&populate the MFS filesystems -- right now i use a rather crude method of putting all the stuff in a tgz archive on the server and expanding it at runtime on the client. I haven't solved the problem with passwords (i.e. i just copy the files from the server. -- this is clearly a security hole, perhaps YP-based solutions would be much better). cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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