From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 7 19: 3:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E7FD37B401 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 19:03:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 216E043E4A for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 19:03:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 6FD225191F; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 13:33:50 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 13:33:50 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Len Conrad Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interest in diskless booting? Message-ID: <20021208030350.GJ96646@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20021208021835.GI96646@wantadilla.lemis.com> <5.1.1.6.2.20021207204517.02a63ea8@mail.go2france.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20021207204517.02a63ea8@mail.go2france.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 7 December 2002 at 20:47:29 -0600, Len Conrad wrote: > >> I was at a local installfext yesterday >> (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were >> interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or >> reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the >> fourth edition of "The Complete FreeBSD", and I was wondering if there >> was enough interest in this topic for me to include it in the book. >> If *you* are interested, please let me know. I'll make a decision >> depending on the amount of feedback I get. > > ** diskless booting OK. You're not the only one. There's obviously a lot of interest out there. > ** how to prepare a disk to generate a bootable .iso Already there :-) > ** up-to-date pico/small how-to for writing a bootable image to a CF drive. I'm not so sure about this one, though I've heard from others on this subject as well. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message