[syslinux] Looking for ways to save space - AKA how to boot multiple machines from the same root

[Marc Tousignant]

Actually, I think I found the best way to do it, AUFS exported via NFS.
I'll still probably be exporting /RAID/diskless/XXXXX-mythtv-0.27-fixes
However that will probably be an AUFS mount point for my baseOS folder and
my XXXXX folder. Anything machine specific would go into XXXXX, like the
hostname file.
I'll probably do some testing with an actual system this weekend, but so far
nfs mounting a test folder seems to work like I need it to.

Marc

-----Original Message-----
From: Ferenc Wagner [mailto:wferi at niif.hu] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 2:32 PM
To: Marc Tousignant <myrdhn at gmail.com>
Cc: syslinux at zytor.com
Subject: Re: [syslinux] Looking for ways to save space - AKA how to boot
multiple machines from the same root

Marc Tousignant via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com> writes:

> Since you say its possible, care to enlighten me on how to do so?

You can set the hostname via DHCP, see for example
http://www.ingmarverheij.com/configure-hostname-via-dhcp/
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Regards,
Feri.