From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 0:15: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0822B37B423 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 00:15:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utah (jcwells@utah.nwlink.com [209.20.130.41]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id AAA28045; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 00:14:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 00:27:41 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcwells@utah To: Cristian de la Fuente / Infomagica Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! In-Reply-To: <002f01c01c64$56382000$06cb1bc8@tanrox> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Cristian de la Fuente / Infomagica wrote: > I need to implement a system that boots from the network AND loads the > OS (LINUX) and apps from the server, that is, without a hard drive on > the client. Basically, like using the NIC as a hard drive controller or > whatever method that works (remote filesystem, remote disk images). Do > you know where I can find information on this? It has been a pain so > far. I don't know about Linux. We here are using FreeBSD. FreeBSD can do exactly what you are talking about. Look for "Diskless" workstations on the freebsd site. And oh yeah, FreeBSD will run linux apps too! Thank you, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message