On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:01:05AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > Question: are machines that must be NFS-root and tftp booted acceptable > or not acceptable for such work? The machines in question would 750MHz > Sibyte 1250s, so 3 Gigabit ports natively, and 2 serial consoles. For many uses that will be decent but there are still a few things out there that don't quite work the same way on NFS that they do on other filesystems and that tends to break some software and autoconf-like things. I'd probably give such a config a 90% score - good for most stuff. Ralf