From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 13 12:19:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA24195 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:19:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24184 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:19:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00919; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:19:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:19:08 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Jason Schwab cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Diskless operation and stuff. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Jason Schwab wrote: > Dear People, > > Ok, I have two computers sitting in my room, one has it all, > hardrive[10gig]PCI ne2000 net card and etc,etc the other one has nothing > but a video card and network card no hardrive. only floppy drive. and ram. > > Is it posibble to have the one without the hardrive run in > "diskless" mode or how ever you call it? Could the with out an hardrive > boot up offa the network card? and mount its own partition(s) offa the one > good main machine? There is documentation on how to do this floating about. To run truly diskless you need an PROM burner. You might be able to get a DOS floppy to load it using the etherboot.com program in /usr/mdec. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message