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Date:      Thu, 15 Jun 2000 23:29:51 -0700
From:      Paul Saab <paul@mu.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        Stefan Molnar <stefan@csudsu.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS?
Message-ID:  <20000615232951.A77797@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <200006152306.QAA23807@pike.osd.bsdi.com>; from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com on Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 04:06:36PM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006151526070.268-100000@clockwork.csudsu.com> <200006152306.QAA23807@pike.osd.bsdi.com>

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John Baldwin (jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com) wrote:
> > The best people to determin if it is nessesary is Yahoo and Hotmail.
> > Since they have worked with these issues in the thousands of machines.
> 
> Actually, Yahoo is basically who funded the PXE development as their
> employees did most of the development and testing with PXE and now use
> it in production, IIRC.

Right now it is being used to build our machines with eventual plans to
run it in production, but that is when we get to diskless machines.

At Hotmail, they used a bootp kernel on the harddisk to install their
systems.

-- 
Paul Saab
Technical Yahoo
paul@mu.org - ps@yahoo-inc.com - ps@freebsd.org
Do You .. uhh .. Yahoo!?


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