From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 13 14:12:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA10185 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:12:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sdcc10.ucsd.edu (sdcc10.ucsd.edu [132.239.50.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA10177 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:12:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crouilla@ucsd.edu) Received: from localhost (crouilla@localhost) by sdcc10.ucsd.edu (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id OAA15528; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:12:12 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: sdcc10.ucsd.edu: crouilla owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:12:12 -0800 (PST) From: Chuck Rouillard Reply-To: chuck@ucsd.edu To: Doug White cc: Jason Schwab , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Diskless operation and stuff. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [cut] > > Dear People, > > > > Ok, I have two computers sitting in my room, one has it all, > > hardrive[10gig]PCI ne2000 net card and etc,etc the other one has nothing > > but a video card and network card no hardrive. only floppy drive. and ram. > > > > Is it posibble to have the one without the hardrive run in > > "diskless" mode or how ever you call it? Could the with out an hardrive > > boot up offa the network card? and mount its own partition(s) offa the one > > good main machine? > > There is documentation on how to do this floating about. To run truly > diskless you need an PROM burner. You might be able to get a DOS floppy > to load it using the etherboot.com program in /usr/mdec. > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org Creating a ROM based, diskless workstation will prolly be painfull to create unlesss you have the tools... see this page for some ideas: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message