Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 15:32:20 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> To: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@colltech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Diskless Message-ID: <12676686589.20000530153220@buz.ch> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0005300203320.22077-100000@psasolar.private.psa.pencom.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0005300203320.22077-100000@psasolar.private.psa.pencom.com>
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Hello James, > I was searching through the archives and I noticed your question about > diskless booting. I too am working on a solution with PXE and Intel > Pro100 cards. I don't want to use anything from Intel (that company has just got a bad attitude...) . I'd like to have solution that will work with most generic bootroms/cards. > "/data/bsdfs". However if I export "/" from another BSD box everything > seems to work fine, this is not an acceptable solution though as I can't > have multiple boxes doing read/writes on the same root fs. Why do you need to have / writeable anyway? A properly configured system should NEVER write there, IMHO. The only thing the system's should write to, IMHO, are /tmp and /home. /etc should be changed on the server. > I guess I just wanted to share my experience with this PXE thing and > solicit any advice/experiences that others have had. If we can get this > right we've taken a huge step in remote management for FreeBSD (and other > Intel) servers. Is that PXE thingy worth a try, meaning should I go hunting for one of those cards in Switzerland? I'd prefer the well known old bootroms as those are pretty generic and therefore not bound to one vendor... Best regards, Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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