Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 14:02:40 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0401091358580.48456-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <3FFF1D42.90408@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Scott Long wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Here at Vicor, we have over a thousand machines spread over about > > 20 sites. About 10 of those machines have cdrom drives. Our plans call > > for moving from 4.x to 5.x, probably at the end of 2004, maybe early > > 2005. Most of the machien swill not have been replaced by then so > > we'll still have very few cdroms. > > Luckily this would probably not be an issue for the upgrade, but > > the Custommer Engineers (CEs) need to be able to rebuild machine quickly > > in the case of disk failures or other problems. They use floppies at the > > moment for this. > > > > I could immagine that a floppy that did a net-boot might > > be a possibility, but retraining them to do things differently is > > always a problem. > > > > > > Can these machines netboot/PXEboot? In any case, there looks to be some > prospects for someone stepping forward to help with floppies. If Vicor > wants to help out too, that would be wonderful. I have grave doubts as to all 1000 machines being able to net/PXE boot.. They have come from varying sources at different times.. Of course we may be able to produce our own boot floppies with unneeded options removed.. A net-booting floppy may be enough, and I'll add it to my list of things that I'll keep my eye on.. If we get close and no-one has worked on it I'll see what I need to do to get it to work for us :-) (At that point I'd get payed to do whatever it took :-) > > Scott > >
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