Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 16:15:48 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Jeff Harris <jeff@dcnv.com> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help... heh. Message-ID: <37F5B124.2446D85B@newsguy.com> References: <19991002002552.B15170@dcnv.com>
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Jeff Harris wrote: > > The machines in question are big pIII/500's with 1gig+ of ram each, 100mbit > ethernet, etc. They're fast. My question is, where do I start looking for > info. I've seen lots of diskless stuff (well, okay, a few things) but these > machines aren't totally diskless. They at least have a floppy. Frankly, if the machines are networked, it would be better to have them as diskless. The floppy drive is slow and unreliable. I don't know if the reliability of floppies or floppy drives have decreased as their use diminishes, or if our driver isn't much good (well, it has never been much good, but it might have got worse), but problems that are traced back to bad floppies are often reported. If you make them diskless, you won't have trouble in case of the machines reboot for whatever reasons, no bad floppy problem, and maybe faster reboots. Better yet, changing the configuration is easier. So... why not? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org Rule 69: Do unto other's code as you'd have it done unto yours To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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