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From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: diskless client
Date: 3 Feb 1996 00:41:47 -0500
Organization: Panix
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Message-ID: <4eusir$fql@panix2.panix.com>
References: <4epmp7$6t3@ntucsz.csie.ntu.edu.tw>
Reply-To: tls@rek.tjls.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com
In article <4epmp7$6t3@ntucsz.csie.ntu.edu.tw>,
Chih-Yuan Cheng <cycheng@solar.csie.ntu.edu.tw> wrote:
>Can NetBSD support diskless bootable NFS clients ?
Yes. This works somewhat better on architectures that have a real boot
monitor and built-in support for network booting. There are some tools
to build netboot ROMs for various Ethernet cards for the i386 but I
don't think very many -- if any at all -- people are using them.
I suppose you know that you really, really, REALLY want to have a local disk
at least to swap to? Considering what small disks can be had for these
days ($80 will get you a perfectly good 100MB disk to swap to) there's hardly
any reason to go pure diskless, unless of course you _want_ to lose.
--
Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
love is an angel disguised as lust