From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 16 11:29:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from web21204.mail.yahoo.com (web21204.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.131.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E96D237B402 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:29:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20020116192926.48186.qmail@web21204.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [192.249.47.11] by web21204.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:29:25 PST Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:29:25 -0800 (PST) From: Robert Thoelen III Reply-To: robert.thoelen@ieee.org Subject: Almost diskless workstation To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry about the previous empty post. I am trying create a filesystem on a server running FreeBSD at work. I would like to create a floppy that would mount the filesystem by NFS. This way, on any given machine at work, I could put the floppy in and turn it into a BSD workstation, without manipulating the hard disk. I was looking at netboot and etherboot, but I am confused. I don't want to make a rom image for a network card. The machines that I would put the floppy into are on the same network as the server, but the DHCP is administered by another group. If I just need to DHCP an address, but I know the address of the server running NFS, is my best bet to create a custom floppy with a kernel image on it and have the init scripts NFS mount the filesystem and continue? Thanks for any help, Bob ===== Robert Thoelen III E-mail: robert.thoelen@ieee.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message