From: Niall Brady (bradyn at domain maths.tcd.ie)
Date: Fri 01 Jun 2001 - 17:47:17 IST
> 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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