NanoBSD Updatep* scripts

[Alex DuBois]

> >diskless from a central NFS server instead of from flash? I 
> don't know 
> >the environment that the Soekris boxes are in, but I would go with 
> >diskless if I could.
> >
> If I do that, will I be able to configure each nodes with 
> their own IP Addresses and config files ?

For the ip address problem, hand the address out with your dhcp server
that tells the diskless client where to get its boot file. The diskless
client will keep that address as long as you don't have have ifconfig
reconfigure it on boot up.

If you need different config files, you could set that up with
individualized directories on the nfs server or you could mount a
partition from flash if you like. There are a lot of good tutorials on
how to set up diskless. Once you figure out how it all works together it
isn't too hard.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-diskle
ss.html

http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/

Alex