I would say if you're gonna go ahead and share /usr you may as well go diskless.
OR: run a centrally managed group of apps over X remotely (this could get messy tho) this way they all run on the same machine However what is the problem you're having with the machines having their own /usr? Can't you just have a "standard" group of packages that each machine gets, then update every night from there? Mounting just /usr over nfs is going to have non trivial reprocussions with dpkg I would think. That is usually what /opt is for and probably why debian does not use it. > -----Original Message----- > From: David Wright [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 3:49 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: managing multiple machines > > > Several posters have pointed out that I can get DHCP to assign IPs > based > on MAC, which goes a long way toward solving my problem. I guess if I > share hosts using ldap, I can still give each machine a unique name, > too. > > Now the only problem I can think of with sharing /usr and /etc is that > my > file server's /etc will contain stuff like /etc/exports, which will > end up > telling every machine to be a file server. Hmmmm. > > I'll go and re-read the Diskless-HOWTO, but if anyone knows a > workaround > I'd still appreciate hearing from you. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
