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David Groves wrote:

> [snip]
> 
> I also found (http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskless-x/index.html).
> It is long time out of date, but if you change most of it to use
> Etherboot instead of the remote boot stuff in the FreeBSD core (the
> comments in /usr/src/.../wherever/the/remote/boot is suggest removing
> that part of the code because of etherboot) then this should still work.
> 
> I'm still worried about the sharing of the file systems by numerous
> clients (particularly /tmp and /var), and the security problems of
> NFS/TFTP. Any comments ?


Create memory disk file systems for /var and /tmp. Since all you want to 
do is running an X server, this should work.

HTH
-Christoph Sold


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