Re: [ILUG] Where should the root file system for a diskless client reside?

From: John P. Looney (john at domain antefacto.com)
Date: Tue 14 Aug 2001 - 12:46:57 IST


On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:44:26PM +0100, John Gay mentioned:
> I know that a Sun employee reads this list, this message is for him, and
> anyone else who might have experience setting up diskless systems. The ltsp
> is currently looking to re-locate the root directory for the workstations
> and I just wanted to find out what others use. I know that Sun markets a
> thin-client, I think it was called the Sunray. Does anyone know where the
> root file system for this resides on the server?

 The Sunray is a different kettle of fish. It doesn't run Solaris itself
.. it's little more than an X terminal.

> The current options being discussed include: /opt Fine for third-party
> software, but what happens if a distro wants to include it? /var Not
> popular, as this is supposed to be for transient data, and the root file
> system is R/O. /usr/. . . There are various arguements for
> different sub-directories under /usr. /srv This has been sugested
> because the FHS is considering putting apache files here in the next
> revision. But it does not comply with the current FHS.

 IIRC, Solaris used to want people do have a /export/Solaris-2.5-sparc
directory, which was an install of Solaris-2.5. Then, you did something
like

 ln -s /export/Solaris-2.5-sparc/usr /export/10.2.1.2/usr
 cp -a /export/Solaris-2.5-sparc/{etc,var,...} /export/10.2.1.2/

 and you were sorted. /export/home was the home directory for users then.

Kate

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