From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 7 21:37:10 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 81A0C37B401; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 21:37:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E95D643EA9; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 21:37:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id gB85b7WS152468; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 00:37:07 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <20021208021835.GI96646@wantadilla.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 00:37:06 -0500 To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , FreeBSD Questions From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Interest in diskless booting? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 At 12:28 AM -0500 12/8/02, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >At 12:48 PM +1030 12/8/02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>If *you* are interested, please let me know. I'll make a decision >>depending on the amount of feedback I get. > >There's at least two cases, right? diskless booting off something >like a custom CD-ROM, and diskless booting over the network? > >One of the students here at RPI worked on a project for the custom >cd-rom idea. It's at > >http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/freebsdtogo/ Uh, the point of me mentioning this is that the project is still in "testing" stage (*), he has made no effort to promote the project, and yet he has gotten a fair amount of interest in it. So, I expect many people would be interested in the issues involved with making such a setup. (* - it works fine for his specific needs, but it could probably use some more polish so others could easily use it) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message