From owner-freebsd-small Thu Aug 13 11:11:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11298 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:11:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mirage.nlink.com.br (mirage.nlink.com.br [200.238.120.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA11289 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:11:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luiz@nlink.com.br) Received: from mirage.nlink.com.br (mirage.nlink.com.br [200.238.120.3]) by mirage.nlink.com.br (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id PAA12324; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 15:09:09 -0300 (EST) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 15:09:09 -0300 (EST) From: Luiz de Barros To: Mike Smith cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DISKLESS and FLOPPYLESS remote serial boot. In-Reply-To: <199808131714.KAA00775@antipodes.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Mike and All, Thanks for the reply. Where can i find these cards? How Much for 2MB? They would work with FreeBSD as if it was a floppy disk? L On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > We are planning to install in some of our clients an small router with no > > HardDisk. We plan to use PicoBSD but one of our fears is having a floppy > > disk inside the disk drive all the time, subject to disk errors, CRC > > errors, etc. > > > > Is it possible to have the following setup? > > > > One computer with network card, BOOTPROM, no floppy and no Hard Disks. > > One serial conection connected to a remote freebsd PPP server. I want to > > load a small bootstrap from the PROM and download the FreeBSD boot code > > from the serial line ( PPP + TFTP ), the same way it is done with bootp+ > > TFTP loading the boot code from the ethernet bus. > > > > Is it done anywhere? > > Is it possible? > > Could anybody point me some tips? > > I don't believe that anyone has a PPP bootrom. > > I've deployed floppy-based systems in a number of environments, with > generally good results. You want to make sure that the drive is sealed > to prevent dust problems - I normally just put some masking tape over > the front of the drive. > > If reliability is a really serious issue though, I would suggest that > you look at purchasing a flash memory card which emulates a floppy > drive at the BIOS level. This has no moving parts, cannot be written > to by the operating system, and can be easily upgraded if necessary. > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message