Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 12:02:41 -0500 From: Jeff Harris <jeff@dcnv.com> To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: diskless help Message-ID: <19991004120241.A23557@dcnv.com>
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Thanks to all of you who wrote back on my little problem, I think I'm going to go have a look at the rc.diskless stuff and maybe look into putting seperate ethernet controllers in each machine (One which can be outfitted with a bootprom (and is supported :) and one for the outside interface (fast 3com 905 or intel etherexpress pro 10/100). The Etherboot package looked kinda neat. This makes more since.. I hate waiting for floppies to load when I'm installing. I just didn't think about making them totally diskless... Are there facilities for tftping a root partition and loading it into a ramdisk? That way, I could throw in /usr and /var too and not worry about 500 machines trying to nfsmount the root partition... I'll let ya'll know how I make out... I'm sure I'll have some other questions... Again, thanks all for the help. :) -- --- ---------------------------------------- Jeff Harris - Unix and Network Guy DigitalConvergence.Com - jeff@dcnv.com ----------------------------------- mOo! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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