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Date:      Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:56:08 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Paul Jansen <vlaero@yahoo.com.au>
Cc:        jerry@kcis.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskless-x/index.html
Message-ID:  <20000830115607.S18862@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000830162753.28654.qmail@web5101.mail.yahoo.com>; from vlaero@yahoo.com.au on Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 02:27:53AM %2B1000
References:  <20000830162753.28654.qmail@web5101.mail.yahoo.com>

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* Paul Jansen <vlaero@yahoo.com.au> [000830 09:28] wrote:
> Jerry (also cc'd to questions@freebsd.org),
> 
> I'm quite interested in getting FreeBSD set up to
> allow hosting of Diskless FreeBSD based X-terminals. 
> I've installed FreeBSD 4.1 a couple of times and am
> slowly finding my way around it.  I wonder if you've
> got time for a few questions?
> 
> FreeBSD supports something called PXEboot.  I think
> this is something the Netcard has to implicitly
> support and I don't have an cards that will do it.  Is
> PXEboot any use to me?

Probably not, the card's or motherboard's BIOS must support it.

> Is there a more up to date (and in-depth) description
> of how to build diskless Xterminals with FreeBSD
> anywhere?  Are you planning on updating your page at
> any stage?

I think there's a bunch of stuff in /usr/share/examples/diskless.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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