[ILUG] Boot from network

Niall Brady bradyn at maths.tcd.ie
Fri Jun 1 17:47:17 IST 2001


> OTOH if you have a bunch of Unix machines all trying to bootstrap the OS,
> mount everything on NFS filesystems, complete the entire boot process from
> those NFS filesystems, and have swap on an NFS filesystem too, performance
> may suffer :-) 

The other way of having it is just setting up diskless xterms...
that's what we do here... kernel downloaded over the network, all
the filesystems mounted over NFS, then a chooser menu to allow you
to query the host you want to run your X session on... works fine!

-- 
	Niall




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