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Date:      Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:26:01 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tools for FreeBSD development
Message-ID:  <45728A19.7050300@u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20061203064956.GB2405@kobe.laptop>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2006-12-02 20:05, Kevin Sanders <newroswell@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12/2/06, Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I personally think that having a dedicated box in disk-less
>>> configuration is the best option out there. [...]
>> Alexander, when you say disk-less configuration, are you
>> referring to booting from a network image/server?  That's an
>> interesting idea.  I'm fairly new to FreeBSD development also,
>> and prefer the speed of a dedicated box, but recently suffered
>> my first corrupted beyond repair system.
> 
> Yes, a "diskless" boot is a network-based boot :-)

Look into BOOTP for that: 
<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-diskless.html>. 
You may want to just use vmware (best reliable solution, IMO but it 
costs money), depending on what resources you have on hand and what 
you're trying to accomplish.
-Garrett



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