From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 7 19:38:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA24218 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 19:38:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA24154; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 19:37:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA19785; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 19:20:28 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd019762; Wed Oct 7 19:20:22 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA01264; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 19:20:20 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810080220.TAA01264@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 02:20:19 +0000 (GMT) Cc: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810072345.QAA11625@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> from "Satoshi Asami" at Oct 7, 98 04:45:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > * Why not Simply make your rc.conf set the hostname to: `cat /var/hostname` > > I want the machines to boot up correctly the first time with only the > CD-ROM. As I mentioned in the previous mail, all that is required to > add another machine to the cluster is to hook it up, stick in the > CD-ROM and boot. A good objective. BTW, inre: your question about other systems that boot from CDROM: BeOS for the PowerMac boots from CDROM. So do all Compaq machines that support the "JumpStart(tm)" OS installation disks. Ultrix and VMS for various machines can also boot off a CDROM, and I would be surprised if DEC UNIX didn't keep this feature, moving forward. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message