From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 21 15:53:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69E6B16A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:53:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F23FD43D1F for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:53:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id A942E530C; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:53:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id B111F530A; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:53:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 8FBF933C71; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:53:24 +0200 (CEST) To: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" References: <20040421223206.GA93049@rocky.ljusdal.net> From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:53:24 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20040421223206.GA93049@rocky.ljusdal.net> (Roger Vetterberg's message of "Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:32:06 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: comparing netboot thin client solutions? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 22:53:33 -0000 "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" writes: > This made me a bit curious since Ive been planning to do something > similar myself, so I looked up the Diskless X Server howto. > On the last page, it says "If you are not using devfs(5) (which is the > default in FreeBSD 5.X), you should make sure that you do not forget to > run MAKEDEV all in the dev directory." > Now, the article is dated 1996, but it still mentions devfs and FreeBSD > 5.x. > How long has FreeBSD 5.x been around? AFAIK it has been a work in > progress for quite some time, but devfs back in 1996? No, work on FreeBSD 5 started in March 2000. > Has the howto been updated without the date being changed, or am I > missing something here? That sentence was added in August last year. It is practically the only part of the article which is still somewhat relevant. You should read http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/network-diskless.html instead (though I can't guarantee it's 100% up-to-date) DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no