looking for diskless advice

[Chuck Tuffli]

My little side project using DFly as a platform to do some of our system 
validation tasks has snow-balled into something real, and now I need to 
replicate my environment to ~30 machines and keep the OS image on each 
current. There was a thread a while back that described how to setup a 
PXE/bootp environment that made me think setting up a diskless 
environment would be the way to go. I've never setup/maintained an 
environment this big before and am looking for some advice. From other 
people's experiences

1) is diskless a good approach or is it better to re-image the machines 
each time the OS changes (a.k.a. keeping up with _Stable on a regular 
basis)?

2) if diskless is a the way to go, is DFly going to use the same 
approach as FreeBSD? i.e. is reading the FreeBSD diskless HOWTO's going 
to help me get this setup or is there a different reference.

Thanks in advance.

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Chuck Tuffli
Agilent Technologies
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