Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 08:25:50 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Interest in diskless booting? Message-ID: <20021208072550.GC3652@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <p05200f32ba18862f4a6a@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20021208021835.GI96646@wantadilla.lemis.com> <p05200f32ba18862f4a6a@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:28:02AM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 12:48 PM +1030 12/8/02, 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. > > 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/ > > He's used this to make CD's which boot up a laptop, and run without > touching anything on the hard disk. I know he has it working for > the 4.x-branch, and I believe he also updated it for the 5.0-current > branch. This is very useful for having students use there laptops > to take tests, while having the instructor have complete control > over "what they are running". (and not having to worry about > the state of things on the student's hard disk) > (Ah but soon he will have to worry about all that porno in their magnetic memory ....) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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