Re: Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...

1998-05-08 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 03:10:57PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 09:13:58PM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > > Thanks -- that was an excellent idea. I had to massage nfsroot into > > working with libc6, but it was a great starting point. My client is > > now taking up 2

Re: Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...

1998-05-07 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 09:13:58PM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: > Thanks -- that was an excellent idea. I had to massage nfsroot into > working with libc6, but it was a great starting point. My client is > now taking up 2100K -- not bad. Could you plubish the patched nfsroot somewhere? It would be

Re: Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...

1998-05-04 Thread Joey Hess
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > This sounds nice, but would it support say /etc/init.d#HOST=foo#? Yes, that works too. > Also, what about /tmp and /var -- those howtos seem to suggest that > each machine should have its own. You can use /tmp#HOST=foo#, etc. I kept /var shared, except /var/tmp, /var/spoo

Re: Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...

1998-05-04 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 10:57:39AM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: > I use Joost's nfsroot package, which sets most of the stuff up. It's > a good start - but You still need to do a fair amount of hacking to > get it to work. > > I think the package got wiped out by the latest freeze, so you need to > fet

Re: Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...

1998-05-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 12:56:06AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I suggest the NFS-Root and NFS-Root-Client mini-howtos. What I have > > ended up doing is creating a tree with just enough of /bin, /sbin/, > > /etc, /var and /tmp to boot up in it, then the client will mount > >

Re: Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...

1998-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I've been playing with this recently; I have a whole lot of motherboards > and net cards which I want to use to get some parallel processing happening. > > I suggest the NFS-Root and NFS-Root-Client mini-howtos. What I have > ended up doing is creating a tree with just enou

Re: Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...

1998-05-02 Thread Jim Pick
Jeff Noxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm about to set up a diskless Debian workstation. It's going to be > booting over NFS using 2Mbps Wavelan... I know, not fast, but it's just > going to be dishing out .MP3's to my stereo system -- so quietness and > heat are the major concerns here. >

Re: Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...

1998-05-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 08:13:29PM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: > I'm about to set up a diskless Debian workstation. It's going to be > booting over NFS using 2Mbps Wavelan... I know, not fast, but it's just > going to be dishing out .MP3's to my stereo system -- so quietness and > heat are the major

Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...

1998-05-02 Thread Jeff Noxon
I'm about to set up a diskless Debian workstation. It's going to be booting over NFS using 2Mbps Wavelan... I know, not fast, but it's just going to be dishing out .MP3's to my stereo system -- so quietness and heat are the major concerns here. I know I can just do a full install in some subdire