David Wright wrote:
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.
You can use a common /etc and replace the client-specific files with links to /var, like
/etc/exports -> /var/etc/exports
/etc/X11/XF86Config -> /var/etc/X11/XF86Config
..etc
You will however need a unique /var ant /tmp for each client.
This works for me on my diskless cluster.
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