From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 7 23:26: 5 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 2211B37B401 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 23:26:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F5443E4A for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 23:26:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18KvpC-000Lz4-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 08 Dec 2002 07:26:02 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id 6C601F02 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 08:26:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id 0F73BCE3 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 08:25:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id 88246225CC; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 08:25:50 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 08:25:50 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Interest in diskless booting? Message-ID: <20021208072550.GC3652@raggedclown.net> References: <20021208021835.GI96646@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 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 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