From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 19:50:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FB6B16A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 19:50:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from pear.silverwraith.com (66-214-182-79.la-cbi.charterpipeline.net [66.214.182.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF4EB43D3F for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 19:50:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com) Received: from avleen by pear.silverwraith.com with local (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1AfA8s-0004rK-Or; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 19:50:30 -0800 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 19:50:30 -0800 From: Avleen Vig To: Julian Elischer Message-ID: <20040110035030.GY53429@silverwraith.com> References: <3FFF23E4.8090803@gneto.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 03:50:35 -0000 On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:08:08PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > PXE boot against an automated backup/restore service would be much more > > useful for this. > > Assuming they have PXE and a supported card.. One point that hasn't been made here against PXE (well, not against it, but not in favour it): What if you dont' have another server to PXE boot from? What if it's the only PC in your house? PXE booting might be fine for a multi-server network, but when it's the only machine you have at home and you don't have a CD burner, you'd be screwed :) If the etherboot code can be made to use FTP, that would be good. Otherwise, can we have the mirror servers allow tftp? That would fix this quite easily. I might be willing to find hosting for a "boot image" provided it is small, as scott suggested it might be (3mb?)