Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 22:00:46 +0100 (MET) From: Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de> To: jerry@kcis.com (Jerry T. Kendall) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: diskless systems setup Message-ID: <199601072100.WAA00778@mordillo> In-Reply-To: <199601071345.IAA04590.antares.kcis.com@kcis.com> from "Jerry T. Kendall" at Jan 7, 96 08:45:19 am
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hasn't Jerry T. Kendall said ? ...
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> DISKLESS SYSTEMS: A how to guide by Jerry Kendall(jerry@kcis.com)
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> Any comments and ALL questions welcome....
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i and somebody (who helped me with the eprom stuff) also set up
FreeBSD xterminals and diskless machines and thought about writing a
chapter for the handbook (i hope this would be ok jordan ?) - i think
we should coorporate for it - i i have now a fully diskless FreeBSD
xterminal running (booting from eprom) - also swapless - because my
tests showed that with 8 mbytes and 1024x768x8 bit x it won't swap at
all (i ran a swapinfo -k every minute over a long time - with a
picture in the backgroud - playing aroud with xv and netscape - and it
did'nt swap) - it also uses a mfs /tmp file and thus one (currently 12
mbyte big - 9 mbyte of them are the x-fonts) nfs-mounted / dir can be
mounted from as many xterminal as you like - they only boot and will
never acess it again - all the suff (ip-nr, hw-adr, xdm to query, x
server type, XF86Config file etc.) is put int only 2 files (bootptab
and cfg.ip-nr) - maybe we can generalize it for a special FreeBSD
xterminal package ...
t
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