From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 2 16:17:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA04197 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 16:17:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lorax.ubergeeks.com (lorax.ubergeeks.com [206.205.41.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA04168 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 16:17:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adrian@lorax.ubergeeks.com) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by lorax.ubergeeks.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA17203; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 19:17:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from adrian@lorax.ubergeeks.com) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 19:17:16 -0500 (EST) From: ADRIAN Filipi-Martin Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: Jordan Hayes , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stand-alone diskless system ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, ADRIAN Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Jordan Hayes wrote: > > > > I'm looking for any experiences that people here have had with truely > > > diskless machines: not booting over the network, but from say flash > [snip] > > It works really well. A week ago I helped some undergrads run an > > ACM programming contest. Since we weren't allowed to convert a dozen of > [snip] > > Check out the FreeBSD web pages. There is a little in the > > handbook, a little more in the tutorials section and I even found a page > > on NetBSD's site illuminating. It should be enough to figure it out. > > You should read www.freebsd.org pages more carefully :-) For more info > follow the URL in my sig. > > Andrzej Bialecki No offense, but I found the documentation a bit weak. I even installed 3.0 to see if it was easier to configure. It was easier for me to deal with the devil I knew than one I didn't. PicoBSD is pretty neat stuff and I have showm some people the pre-canned versions, but making my own custom one was trickier thant I wanted to deal with at the time. I know it's a new package and growing, so I look forward to future versions. cheers, Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message