30 Sep
2017
30 Sep
'17
12:47 a.m.
On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:46:16AM -0600, Grant Taylor wrote:
On 09/29/2017 02:59 AM, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
wrote:
Nothing fancy. OpenBSD's dhcpd on a server tells the client to pick up
pxeboot (2nd stage bootstrap) tftp from my file server. pxeboot then
loads the kernel over tftp. The bootparamd daemon on the fileserver
provides info to the client regarding its root directory and swap file,
and the client mounts these over NFS.
It follows http://man.openbsd.org/diskless closely.
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Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri,
National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS),
Uppsala University, Sweden.
My main work setup today is actually a diskless
(X11-less) OpenBSD
system. It's just something I set up in a VM environment to learn how
to do it (I'm on a work laptop running Windows 10, as I need Windows for
some few work-related tasks), but it works just fine and I have no
reason to change it. For one thing, it makes backups easier as they can
run locally on the server.
I think you're the first person that I've seen say "I am" and not
"I used
to" regarding diskless.
Can I ask for a high level overview of your config?
I am guessing dhcp and / or bootp, combined with tftp for kernel image, and
NFS for root.