Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 22:23:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Rob Snow <rsnow@txdirect.net> To: "Question@FreeBSD.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Booting "semi"-diskless? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950829220637.29162B-100000@oasis>
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I'm looking for some pointers on booting some of the machines around here "semi"-diskless. The machines in question run dos and windows all day long but, they're idle in the evening. I cant go around and put root/boot partitions on them and I cant put a boot bios on the cards for obvious reasons. What I'd like to do is stroll around whistling and innocently put a floppy in them press reset, have them fire up FreeBSD. When I'm through I just halt the machine and remove the floppy. I've gathered, from TFM and some guessing that I need to do something like: on floppy ( wild ass guess ) minimum kernel with NFS (?) something to do with bootp (?) on FreeBSD box setup for as a bootp server export /usr and some SWAP space for each (?) it seems that If I put a kernel on the floppy (If I can) to boot from that this will become my root filesystem and then need /etc, etc... making things REALLY slow. The distribution boot.flp comes to mind as a possible model. (excuse the random ramblings) suggestions or pointers? or where in TFM I should look --- Rob Snow rsnow@txdirect.net
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