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From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Subject: Re: Help!  My Disks Are GONE...
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Doug Rabson, On 05-Nov-98 you wrote:

...

> > Shall I try to move the controller and its disks to the working
> > machine?
>  
>  I would try moving just the disks to a working machine and then if that
>  works, test the controller in another machine.

Will do as soon as the build finishes.  The PW 433au is solid as a rock.  I
have a feeling as if this is a more stable platform than the i386 is. 
Definitely can take load in stride.

> > Is there a documented way to boot the box over the net with ALL
> > filesystems
> > over NFS?
>  
>  This isn't supported yet.  Netbooting just loads the kernel at the
>  moment.
>  I need to write some code to wire up the NFS root mount.

Just let us know.  I am attracted to the idea of having all the disk I/O
done in one place;  Saves on backup hassles, keeps my source tree uniform,
etc.

Simon


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