Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 04:40:54 -0500 (EST) From: rwong10 <rwong10@cs.mcgill.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: diskless clients Message-ID: <20040112043546.T28537@geminga.my.fubard.ca>
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Hi I am experimenting with setting up a freebsd server to boot diskless clients. I am currently running 4.8R. I've followed the instructions found in the handbook and augmented that with the comments found in /usr/share/examples/diskless/clone_root. My problem is with the cloned root filesystem. It does not appear that the /conf/* directories are overriding the contents found in /diskless_root/etc. What happens is, I boot up via etherboot, the kernel downloads and loads up successfully. When it comes time to process the information in /etc, it is actually reading the cloned config files from the server. In particular, fstab...I have a modified fstab in /conf/default/etc yet the cloned fstab is still being read. Can anyone who has had experience setting up diskless clients offer some suggestions? thanks robin
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