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Subject: Re: Freebsd 6.2 and booting from iSCSI
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The Presence wrote:
> 1) I can do a bare-metal restore very simply.
> 2) I can easily change base system by just changing the TOE parameters in BIOS.
> 3) I can have multiple systems have access to the same data without having to have multiple copies of the data, but do this in block mode instead of file mode.


man diskless

As for #3 you can do this with a software initiator once the system boots.

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