From owner-freebsd-small Sun Apr 2 18:35:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from www.minix.cx (massive.geek.edu [216.73.11.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F38D337BB12 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 18:35:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jontow@www.minix.cx) Received: (from jontow@localhost) by www.minix.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA01978; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 01:35:28 GMT (envelope-from jontow) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 01:35:28 +0000 From: Jonathan Towne To: Greg Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS Message-ID: <20000403013528.A1954@minix.cx> References: <000001bf9cfc$53b7a860$2f01a8c0@int.nomadic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <000001bf9cfc$53b7a860$2f01a8c0@int.nomadic.com.au>; from greg@nomadic.com.au on Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 09:36:53AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 09:36:53AM +1000, Greg scribbled: # Hello, # I need to build a number of cheap, low performance floppy boot systems for a # production testing environment. # I want the machines to boot Linux or FreeBSD from floppy and then use NFS to # grab the latest test software from the server. [snip] # Has anybody run Pico-BSD as an NFS client ? Yes, as a matter of fact, I did all sorts of fun stuff with it.. things like running XFree86 with KDE and windowmaker and Mozilla, all over NFS.. rather trivial to get working, basically, just get a network connection and "mount_nfs server:path /mountpoint" -- - Jonathan Towne wrongway@slic.com - System/Network Administrator To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message