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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:11:29 -0800
From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Steve Watt <steve@Watt.COM>
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 12:55:49PM -0800, Steve Watt wrote:
> Greetings,
>=20
> I'm working on a dataless system that will be booting and rooting
> from flash for some environmental chamber (thermal) tests, and
> logging the results to an NFS server outside the chamber.

I've got to ask, if you're in an NFS environment, why boot from flash at
all?  Why not PXE boot or use etherboot?

-- Brooks

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