Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 19:17:16 -0500 (EST) From: ADRIAN Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: Jordan Hayes <jordan@Thinkbank.COM>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stand-alone diskless system ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981102191341.17187A-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811022125020.2746-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, ADRIAN Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Jordan Hayes wrote: > > > > I'm looking for any experiences that people here have had with truely > > > diskless machines: not booting over the network, but from say flash > [snip] > > It works really well. A week ago I helped some undergrads run an > > ACM programming contest. Since we weren't allowed to convert a dozen of > [snip] > > Check out the FreeBSD web pages. There is a little in the > > handbook, a little more in the tutorials section and I even found a page > > on NetBSD's site illuminating. It should be enough to figure it out. > > You should read www.freebsd.org pages more carefully :-) For more info > follow the URL in my sig. > > Andrzej Bialecki No offense, but I found the documentation a bit weak. I even installed 3.0 to see if it was easier to configure. It was easier for me to deal with the devil I knew than one I didn't. PicoBSD is pretty neat stuff and I have showm some people the pre-canned versions, but making my own custom one was trickier thant I wanted to deal with at the time. I know it's a new package and growing, so I look forward to future versions. cheers, Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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