[jibanes]

Instead, you should netboot them, and run nfsroot; works with irix so I suspect it will work with linux; dhcpd will inform of the tftp location of the kernel and pass the right parameters, should be doable and faster, more reliable. Now what I wonder is if X11/Xorg supports any of these framebuffers.

[newnewpdro]

It's not like nfs has parity with a local posix-compliant filesystem. O_APPEND for example is inherently racy and emulated on nfs last I checked.

But sure, if you're just tooling around, nfsroot is convenient.