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 concerns here. > > I know I can just do a full install in some subdirectory on my main box, > but can I be more conservative with disk space and share some partitions > between both installations? Any tricks, caveats, HOWTO's, etc?
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 enough of /bin, /sbin/, /etc, /var and /tmp to boot up in it, then the client will mount the server's /bin, /sbin, /home and /usr over the top. I have about 3.5mb per client and I am hoping to thin this out some more. (Unfortunately, the startup scripts require bash, and bash + libreadline + curses etc are huge.) This way I have effectively got a Debian system remotely, although it can't be used for package installation/deinstallation etc of course because /usr is readonly, and /var and /etc are machine-specific. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]