From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 24 14:59:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA28274 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 14:59:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from webserver.smginc.com (webserver.smginc.com [204.170.176.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA28257 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 14:59:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from AdamT@smginc.com) Received: from smginc.com ([204.170.177.4]) by webserver.smginc.com (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 0-13723) with SMTP id AAA218 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 18:01:26 -0500 Received: by smginc.com with Microsoft Mail id <34F37A71@smginc.com>; Tue, 24 Feb 98 17:57:05 PST From: Adam Turoff To: hackers Subject: RE: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. Date: Tue, 24 Feb 98 17:57:00 PST Message-ID: <34F37A71@smginc.com> X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ken Hansen writes: > Joe McGuckin wrote: > > if the install code had a www interface, so that I > > didn't need to scrounge up a keyboard & monitor in install freebsd. > > Is it REALLY that hard to come up with a keyboard & monitor? For a regular box, no. For a toaster, possibly. There's an emerging market in rack mountable httpd/ftpd-toasters. I know of one vendor that hacked a NT to death so it doesn't use much in the way of resources and can boot an embedded system. Since we're talking about a standard Intel box whittled down into an embedded system, I wouldn't mind using it if I knew it was something like PicoBSD inside. :-) Expecting any toaster to support a web interface so you can config it from any box on the network isn't asking too much these days. (Now let's not pick nits about who's using a toaster and who has a keyboard and monitor port.) -- Adam. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message