Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 23:16:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Jonathan Towne <wrongway@slic.com> Cc: Greg <greg@nomadic.com.au>, freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Network booting (Re: NFS) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004032310260.86883-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20000403013528.A1954@minix.cx>
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On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Jonathan Towne wrote:
> Yes, as a matter of fact, I did all sorts of fun stuff with it.. things like
> running XFree86 with KDE and windowmaker and Mozilla, all over NFS.. rather
> trivial to get working, basically, just get a network connection and
> "mount_nfs server:path /mountpoint"
Changing the subject, but something that would be REALLY COOL to do is to
have a PicoBSD floppy which does nothing but establish a secure network
connection to a remote server (e.g. over the internet) and downloads
signed KLDs, packages, configuration files, etc into a MFS to bootstrap.
For example, except for the XF86Config file, you could fairly easily make
a "take-anywhere" X client floppy this way.
In principle we could even make a bootserver.freebsd.org which hands out
such signed components to a client on request (making the regular ports
collections packages cryptographically signed would be a good first step).
Kris
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