Re: looking for diskless advice

[Chuck Tuffli <chuck_tuffli@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 07:28:35AM -0800, Chuck Tuffli wrote:
>
> > My little side project using DFly as a platform to do some of our system 
> > validation tasks has snow-balled into something real, and now I need to 
> > replicate my environment to ~30 machines and keep the OS image on each 
> > current. There was a thread a while back that described how to setup a 
> > PXE/bootp environment that made me think setting up a diskless 
> > environment would be the way to go. I've never setup/maintained an 
> > environment this big before and am looking for some advice. From other 
> > people's experiences
>
>
> If you have normal machines e.g. with hard disk and all, I would
> use a small alternative root filesystem, which automatically fetches or
> rsyncs the real root + usr filesystem. I'd configure loader or
> boot0 to switch the default config on demand and restart.
>
> Joerg

Yup, these are normal machines. What is an example of an "alternative root"?

---chuck