Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 19:50:30 -0800 From: Avleen Vig <lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <20040110035030.GY53429@silverwraith.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0401091404060.48456-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> References: <3FFF23E4.8090803@gneto.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0401091404060.48456-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:08:08PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > PXE boot against an automated backup/restore service would be much more > > useful for this. > > Assuming they have PXE and a supported card.. One point that hasn't been made here against PXE (well, not against it, but not in favour it): What if you dont' have another server to PXE boot from? What if it's the only PC in your house? PXE booting might be fine for a multi-server network, but when it's the only machine you have at home and you don't have a CD burner, you'd be screwed :) If the etherboot code can be made to use FTP, that would be good. Otherwise, can we have the mirror servers allow tftp? That would fix this quite easily. I might be willing to find hosting for a "boot image" provided it is small, as scott suggested it might be (3mb?)
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