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Date:      Sat, 7 Dec 2002 18:28:14 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Interest in diskless booting?
Message-ID:  <20021208022814.GA96916@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021208021835.GI96646@wantadilla.lemis.com>
References:  <20021208021835.GI96646@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:48:35PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> I was at a local installfext yesterday
> (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were
> interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or
> reliability.  I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the
> fourth edition of "The Complete FreeBSD", and I was wondering if there
> was enough interest in this topic for me to include it in the book.
> If *you* are interested, please let me know.  I'll make a decision
> depending on the amount of feedback I get.

It's pretty useful..on some hardware (alpha, sparc, i386 with pxe
support) you can even bootstrap a fresh system that way.  It is a bit
tricky to get working if you don't know what you're doing, so
documentation sounds useful.

Kris

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