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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Nov 11 21:24:05 1995
To: lopes@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 Nov 1995 20:56:41 EST."
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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 21:23:49 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
The SIPB-Athena installation is intended to produce something modeling
an Athena cluster machine. The idea is that by sharing large pieces
of software (/usr/athena, /usr/X11R6, /usr/andrew), people can use
very little space on client machines, and most updates will propagate
to client machines quickly. The model we use may or may not be
tolerable for a 56KB line; as Yoav pointed out, after you use your
system for a while you may find that more files are cached and your
system performs acceptably.
Yoav's suggestion was that you copy the entire srvd (200MB); you may
wish to consider copying only /usr/athena (50MB), /emul/linux (small)
and parts of /usr/X11R6 (50MB, but you only need 15MB or so of that).
At some point, we want to give people more installation and
post-installation options for keeping things local, but it will take a
lot of work to simultaneously develop a system where important changes
are local.
