29 Sep
2017
29 Sep
'17
10:46 p.m.
On 09/29/2017 02:59 AM, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote:
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.
OpenBSD has this "dpb" thing
("distributed ports builder",
/usr/ports/infrastructure/bin/dpb, http://man.openbsd.org/dpb) that
does distributed building of 3rd-party packages. It does exactly this,
sharing the sources over NFS.
Interesting.
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