Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:12:12 -0800 (PST) From: Chuck Rouillard <crouilla@ucsd.edu> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Jason Schwab <freaker@null.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Diskless operation and stuff. Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.4.02A.9811131408470.13491-100000@sdcc10.ucsd.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811131218150.20228-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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[cut] > > 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 Creating a ROM based, diskless workstation will prolly be painfull to create unlesss you have the tools... see this page for some ideas: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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