From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 18 2:24: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from srcso.globis.ru (globis.ru [212.248.80.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA9C337B479 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 02:24:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from raduga.dyndns.org (raduga.sochi.net [212.248.82.76]) by srcso.globis.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA50165; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 13:49:12 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from igor@raduga.dyndns.org) Received: (from igor@localhost) by raduga.dyndns.org (8.10.1/8.10.0) id eAIANrh07119; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 13:23:53 +0300 Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 13:23:53 +0300 From: Igor Robul To: Tom Parquette Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a server to a diskless FreeBSD X machine? Message-ID: <20001118132353.F6975@linux.rainbow> Reply-To: igorr@crosswinds.net Mail-Followup-To: Tom Parquette , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3A15D1F2.97BB33C1@twcny.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <3A15D1F2.97BB33C1@twcny.rr.com>; from tparquet@twcny.rr.com on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 07:48:50PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 07:48:50PM -0500, Tom Parquette wrote: > I have not found anything that answers the question, can FreeBSD serve > as the diskless 'server' machine? Yes, it can > > Is this possible or would I have to have just enough disk space to hold > the OS and X then NFS mount the X user's filesystem? You can use FreeBSD without hard and even floppy disk if you wish. /usr/port/net/etherboot and Handbook -- Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", Sochi, Russia http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message