Dvir, Please take a look at the Linux Terminal Server Project at http://www.ltsp.org It's a project I'm working on to handle diskless booting, after the bootrom is done with it's job. We have a site with 70 workstations, all mounting the same root filesystem in read-only mode. It may be just what you need. Thanks, Jim McQuillan jam@ltsp.org Dvir Oren wrote: > 2. The other thing I can't seem to configure is the need to create a > separate file system for each system that has to boot. Suppose I > want to have 10 diskless computers, why do I need to duplicate 10 > file systems on the server? I suppose I could hard link most of the > file system, and only create a new /var, /tmp and /proc perhaps > (still there is a problem with /etc/mtab) for each client. A better > solution would be if I could make a single file system for all the > computers, and let each computer have a ramdisk with only certain > directories (/var, etc.). Is there a way to do this? =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Jim McQuillan <jam@McQuil.com> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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