From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 9 17:59:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7551737B401 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:59:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C4843F33 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:59:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 5E4635190A; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:29:48 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:29:48 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Lou Katz Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Interest in diskless booting? Message-ID: <20021210015948.GR1952@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20021208021835.GI96646@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021209174813.A55098@metron.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021209174813.A55098@metron.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 9 December 2002 at 17:48:14 -0800, Lou Katz wrote: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:48:35PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> I was at a local installfext yesterday >> (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were >> interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or >> reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the >> fourth edition of "The Complete FreeBSD", and I was wondering if there >> was enough interest in this topic for me to include it in the book. >> If *you* are interested, please let me know. I'll make a decision >> depending on the amount of feedback I get. > > Absolutely - especially how to configure a machine to boot and run from such > things as compact flash. That's a hardware issue. Most BIOSes don't support it. It's certainly worth following up on, but I won't go beyond mentioning the possibility in the book. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message