From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 7 18:28:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD46D37B401; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 18:28:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-104-228.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.104.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A951743EBE; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 18:28:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2687A66C61; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 18:28:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BD5FB1388; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 18:28:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 18:28:14 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Interest in diskless booting? Message-ID: <20021208022814.GA96916@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20021208021835.GI96646@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6TrnltStXW4iwmi0" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021208021835.GI96646@wantadilla.lemis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE98q49Wry0BWjoQKURAovYAKCzPU6gRxJvY5FH+E19Vn3gZRxI7ACfYECo Wjzw1O1WX6pVacvfY1tWx64= =g9uQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message