Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:04:32 -0500 From: Joshua Coombs <jcoombs@gwi.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interest in diskless booting? Message-ID: <20021210110432.A26934@dargo.gwi.net>
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I've been beating on freebsd diskless for awhile now and would love to see some hard docs on it. My current goal is to get an iPaq IA1 stable under FreeBSD diskless using nothing but a 32M CF card and a USB nic. I'm oh so close but still dealing with random locks under load. (BTW, booting off CF is cake as long as you use an ide to CF adapter. At that point the cf appears as a bog standard HD. Just don't swap to it unless its a microdrive.) Joshua Coombs >On Monday, 9 December 2002 at 17:48:14 -0800, Lou Katz wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:48:35PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey 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. >> >> Absolutely - especially how to configure a machine to boot and run from such >> things as compact flash. > >That's a hardware issue. Most BIOSes don't support it. It's >certainly worth following up on, but I won't go beyond mentioning the >possibility in the book. > >Greg >-- >Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key >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
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