Re: Shared-root diskless netboot, critical local/remote mounts, and rc.conf

[Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

Hi,

I'm late to this discussion and missed the beginning, but you might want
to take a look at the method I used for a shared-root setup at one of
our student labs in ca. 2002 (presented at the 2nd EuroBSDon).

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/1957467_A_Shared_Write-protected_Root_Filesystem_for_a_Group_of_Networked_Clients

key points: I configured a lot of /etc changeables to be constant,
and as catch-all I union-mounted a tmpfs on top of /etc to catch
what was unhandled.

User authentication and group directory were done via NIS back then
(configured in via nsswitch), name service via DNS, of course.

Regards,
	-is
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