From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 14 21:16: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from goofy.zort.on.ca (cr575310-a.shprd1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.185.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F242114CE0 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 21:16:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rod@zort.on.ca) Received: from rbtBSD.intranet (rbtBSD.zort.on.ca [10.0.0.50]) by goofy.zort.on.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C646256 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 00:17:00 -0500 (EST) From: Rod Taylor Reply-To: rod@zort.on.ca Organization: Zort To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Thoughts... Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 00:05:46 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0001150016090H.04098@rbtBSD.intranet> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ -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 -- Rod Taylor Partner of Zort (zort.on.ca) -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message