Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:26:01 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tools for FreeBSD development Message-ID: <45728A19.7050300@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20061203064956.GB2405@kobe.laptop> References: <eb7c8e2e0612021224x13598151ya58e471c9dfaa3b4@mail.gmail.com> <eb7c8e2e0612021528h47239e5cl3cf0c1e08e399329@mail.gmail.com> <20061202210741.02e0728a@kan.dnsalias.net> <375baf50612022005i6b9a174w5d251e710d8cefc@mail.gmail.com> <20061203064956.GB2405@kobe.laptop>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2006-12-02 20:05, Kevin Sanders <newroswell@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 12/2/06, Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I personally think that having a dedicated box in disk-less >>> configuration is the best option out there. [...] >> Alexander, when you say disk-less configuration, are you >> referring to booting from a network image/server? That's an >> interesting idea. I'm fairly new to FreeBSD development also, >> and prefer the speed of a dedicated box, but recently suffered >> my first corrupted beyond repair system. > > Yes, a "diskless" boot is a network-based boot :-) Look into BOOTP for that: <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-diskless.html>. You may want to just use vmware (best reliable solution, IMO but it costs money), depending on what resources you have on hand and what you're trying to accomplish. -Garrett
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