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Date:      Tue, 24 Feb 98 17:57:00 PST
From:      Adam Turoff <AdamT@smginc.com>
To:        hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool.
Message-ID:  <34F37A71@smginc.com>

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Ken Hansen <khansen@njcc.com> writes:
> Joe McGuckin wrote:
> > if the install code had a www interface, so that I
> > didn't need to scrounge up a keyboard & monitor in install freebsd.
>
> Is it REALLY that hard to come up with a keyboard & monitor?

For a regular box, no.  For a toaster, possibly.

There's an emerging market in rack mountable httpd/ftpd-toasters.
I know of one vendor that hacked a NT to death so it doesn't
use much in the way of resources and can boot an embedded
system.

Since we're talking about a standard Intel box whittled down into
an embedded system, I wouldn't mind using it if I knew it
was something like PicoBSD inside.  :-)

Expecting any toaster to support a web interface so you can config it
from any box on the network isn't asking too much these days.

(Now let's not pick nits about who's using a toaster and who
has a keyboard and monitor port.)

 -- Adam.

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