From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 7 13:35:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA16855 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 13:35:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (omega.physik.fu-berlin.de [130.133.3.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA16847 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 13:35:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mordillo (oberon.physik.fu-berlin.de [130.133.3.126]) by omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id WAA12399; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 22:35:38 +0100 (MET) Received: (from graichen@localhost) by mordillo (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA00778; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 22:00:46 +0100 From: Thomas Graichen Message-Id: <199601072100.WAA00778@mordillo> Subject: Re: diskless systems setup To: jerry@kcis.com (Jerry T. Kendall) Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 22:00:46 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199601071345.IAA04590.antares.kcis.com@kcis.com> from "Jerry T. Kendall" at Jan 7, 96 08:45:19 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk hasn't Jerry T. Kendall said ? ... > > DISKLESS SYSTEMS: A how to guide by Jerry Kendall(jerry@kcis.com) > ... > > Any comments and ALL questions welcome.... > 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 _______________________________________________________||___________________ __|| Perfection is reached, not when there is no __|| thomas graichen longer anything to add, but when there __|| freie universitaet berlin is no longer anything to take away __|| fachbereich physik __|| - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - __|| graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de ___________________________||__________________graichen@FreeBSD.org_________