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To: Luiz de Barros <luiz@nlink.com.br>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: DISKLESS and FLOPPYLESS remote serial boot.
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Ever look into DiskOnChip? I believe it goes from 1meg to 72 megs
of space. Since its chip, and not floppy or HDD, it should be fast.
Anyone have any experience with DiskOnChip and getting it to work
with FreeBSD/PicoBSD?

	-J

Luiz de Barros wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> We are planning to install in some of our clients an small router with no
> HardDisk. We plan to use PicoBSD but one of our fears is having a floppy
> disk inside the disk drive all the time, subject to disk errors, CRC
> errors, etc.
> 
> Is it possible to have the following setup?
> 
> One computer with network card, BOOTPROM, no floppy and no Hard Disks.
> One serial conection connected to a remote freebsd PPP server.  I want to
> load a small bootstrap from the PROM and download the FreeBSD boot code
> from the serial line ( PPP + TFTP ), the same way it is done with bootp+
> TFTP loading the boot code from the ethernet bus.
> 
> Is it done anywhere?
> Is it possible?
> Could anybody point me some tips?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Luiz
> 
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