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Date:      Sat, 15 Jan 2000 00:05:46 -0500
From:      Rod Taylor <rod@zort.on.ca>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Thoughts...
Message-ID:  <0001150016090H.04098@rbtBSD.intranet>

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[  -current seemed like the best place to put this as I suspect thats what I'll
be using for the various NFS & linux compat updates.]

In early March I'd like to setup a system of 300 systems network booted from
multiple central servers.  These systems should include server mirroring (it'd
be nice to have more than one active) and somekind of hoarding (for laptops and
local cache).

The systems will have relatively small harddrives in them (approx. 1.8gb).

I want to use FreeBSD on both the workstations (running things like KDE v2,
Star Office for it's MSOffice compatibilities, various electronics ports, and
some of the programming basics).  Only thing I'm really missing is a
replacement for windows Matlab.

Machines all have ne2k nics with eproms on them.  I'd like to mount most
filesystems with CODA due to it's advantages.  I notice theres no way to mount
a CODA filesystem for /.

Should I use NFS then (which relies upon the network being up) or is there an
easy method to create an image on the disk?  Perhaps a pre-configured install
disk would due?  (If machine broken, insert disk, wait 10 minutes till it says
install is done and reboot?),

Any thoughts on this are welcome.  The system doesn't need to be installed
until March, but I'm forming a proposal which I'll submit in the middle of next
week.

Thanks,
	Rod Taylor

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Rod Taylor
Partner of Zort (zort.on.ca)
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