> > > * A Debian server, with a large hard disk, with a fairly full install of > > > Debian. > > > * Multiple Debian client machines, with small hard disks (often 100 meg > > > or > > > less). I'd like to mount, at minimum, /usr from the Debian server. > > > /usr should be mounted over NFS in read-only mode.
> > I'm working on a similar set up. this is the first machine, and is > > supposed to become the server--though i'd like to keep it and make > > another one the server. > the "perfect" solution is the nfsroot package. You can boot > *everything* from the server. Per client you need only some > configuration files on the server. This probably goes too far, though: the poor little server is just a 486/33. It seems that keeping some of the base files on the local machines would lower load. And won't 10 X11's over ethernet bring it to it's knees? rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
