Diskless & Thin Systems

[Jason Straight]

I've recently installed a new lab at our local library, and I have a few 
suggestions that could make ubuntu more thinclient/diskless friendly out of 
the box.

1. Compile in kernel ip autoconfig and dhcp
2. Compile support for booting from NFS
3. Make dirs which hold temporary data tmpfs instead of hard mounts
 - /tmp
 - /var/run*
 - /var/lock*
 - /var/tmp
 - /media
 - /mnt

To name a few. If not for these 3 points booting ubuntu over a network would 
be as simple as copying a kernel, initrd, and pxelinux.0 (from syslinux) to a 
tftp served dir, setting up dhcp and nfs and be done.

*What I find odd is that it seems different systems I install ubuntu (dapper 
included) seem to mount some /var dirs tmpfs (err varrun,varlock), while 
other times not. What's the criteria that decides this during installation?



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