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From: solden@geop.ubc.ca (Steven Oldenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Installing a minimal version of SUN OS with full functionality
Keywords: TFS SUNOS upgrade
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.203442.24489@cs.ubc.ca>
Date: 28 Jun 91 20:34:42 GMT
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I am currently upgrading our machines (4/330's and a 4/370) 
to Sun OS 4.1.1.  As the full version of the operating system 
takes up 120+ Megabytes I am looking at ways to avoid putting
the entire operating system on each of our 5 machines while 
still giving all machines access to a full copy of the OS.  

I have investigated two options :

 1) Selectively mounting low use directories from a server 
    machine.

 2) Mounting the entire /usr partion externally and then using
    the tfs to overlay high use files. 

Has anyone experimented with either of these two options or 
has used a different, more efficient configuration? 

Thanks,

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Steve Oldenburg                                 solden@geop.ubc.ca
Department of Geophysics and Astronomy, UBC, Canada