Re: Debian over NFS

[Rick Hawkins <rhawkins@iastate.edu>]

> > >  * 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



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