Re: Help... diskless workstation?

Riley Williams (rhw@bigfoot.com)
Fri, 2 Oct 1998 20:46:49 +0100 (GMT)


Hi there.

> Is there a HOWTO somewhere on how to setup diskless workstations?

> I'd like to set one up where I boot from diskette and possibly
> setup a ramdisk, but mount the necessary directories over NFS.

> Can someone give me pointers, suggestions?

If you create a kernel that includes the 'root fs on nfs' option, the
above should be easy, with the ramdisk reserved for /tmp preferably.
However, never having done precicely that, I can't say for sure...

Best wishes from Riley.

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