Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:38:41 +0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Adam Turoff <AdamT@smginc.com> Cc: hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. Message-ID: <34F37621.167EB0E7@whistle.com> References: <34F37A71@smginc.com>
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Adam Turoff wrote: > > Ken Hansen <khansen@njcc.com> 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.) for the cannonical FreeBSD toaster (even looks like one) see www.whistle.com (plug plug) > > -- Adam. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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