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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: ports startup scripts
To: gryphon@healer.com (Coranth Gryphon)
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> With prices for
> hard-disks down around our ankles, the need for diskless FreeBSD machines
> is functionally NIL. If someone really wants that setup, they have to
> configure the remote server anyway, to server the root file-system for
> that machine. What's so hard about configuring it for each machine?

Lab full of nominally DOS machines which you wish to subvert to BSD
using netboot and msdosfs.  8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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