Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:36:01 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org> To: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting rid of sysinstall Message-ID: <20010712173601.L4589@sneakerz.org> In-Reply-To: <3B4E1C69.A6DC0397@herbelot.com>; from thierry@herbelot.com on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:53:45PM %2B0200 References: <bulk.72438.20010711142307@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107121211060.35209-100000@www.bloodletting.com> <20010712143205.D4589@sneakerz.org> <3B4E1C69.A6DC0397@herbelot.com>
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* Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> [010712 16:54] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > [SNIP] > > Actually, this is what I did for Google, we were able to have 40 machines > > installed in about an hour: > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/ > > > > -- > > -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] > > Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'? > > And why do my programs keep crashing in it? > > first : a big thank you for your paper : I finally could use PXE for > diskless booting (not install, just running a full, diskless, FreeBSD) > > then : I thought Google used some version of Linux in its server farms No, they don't run FreeBSD. They were interested in having someone like me or the dozen of other FreeBSD kernel developers to turn to for help as well as the superior debugging features of FreeBSD, that's why I did the setup for them. However in the end they chose to stay with Linux, I don't think much actual evaluation was really done, basically one day someone needed that rack running linnex so they spammed over it. It was fun, but we missed. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'? And why do my programs keep crashing in it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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