Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:54:44 -0500 From: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> Cc: cloper <cloper@crowncollege.edu> Subject: Re: SUNRays Message-ID: <86fzfvxnaj.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> In-Reply-To: <3FD258B5.3030101@cream.org> (Andrew Boothman's message of "Sat, 06 Dec 2003 22:31:17 %2B0000") References: <3FD24741.5000100@crowncollege.edu> <3FD258B5.3030101@cream.org>
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Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> writes: > They are *really* thin clients that really only consist of a > monitor, mouse and keyboard and rely on their host server for > everything else. That's not an architecture that you're going to get > FreeBSD to run under I wouldn't think. I'm quite happily running FreeBSD-5.1 on a diskless VIA system: just cpu, ram, ethernet, screen: it netboots then mounts partitions from my main machine via NFS. Very nice: zero noise, reliable, no sysadm duties. The diskless support for 5.1 is really quite nice; man diskless. In the past, I've run NetBSD diskless on Sun IPX and ELC systems. I suspect that if the SunRays do a PXE boot then they can be given addresses by DHCP, boot files via TFTP, and filesystems via NFS -- just like any other diskless client. I don't know if FreeBSD runs on SunRay's CPU, however.
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