From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 15 23:18:22 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D56FB16A416 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:18:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dghatikachalam@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96E3013C467 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:18:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dghatikachalam@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so1808304wxc for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:18:21 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=AVe/6ny4RZRfZynBkZkSmG996qVofnkCz8siZV6ZM0goiuVxeDFX4UGaEe1PBSnHldyPCqIgLH1j617DIR+sQqC7/Z4uEgZd+4NcpeokMxPg6qg2WE8jKGYV/sHKibRWXXKVlyg19rDAsjrDTSEB7D3xJBgPfNgn76kw0y5SXLU= Received: by 10.70.8.20 with SMTP id 20mr8901042wxh.1168903101588; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:18:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.52.12 with HTTP; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:18:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:18:21 -0600 From: "Dak Ghatikachalam" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Is it possible to have Diskless workstation in freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:18:22 -0000 Hi Freebsd I have a need to setup 3 workstations to boot remotely without any ( OS) on local disks, What are ways to go about achieving that, I want the users to have all their utilities and files stores all back stored in the remote server. But confusion how the OS going to detect the correct local Hardware resources for it to run right drivers, example being the VGA driver, local keyboard and mouse. Please advise Thanks Dak