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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!ns.saard.net!spasun.tpa.com.au!news.adelaide.on.net!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.reference.com!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!not-for-mail From: thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R Thorpe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: diskless client Date: 4 Feb 1996 18:35:22 -0800 Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Project - NASA Ames Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4f3qda$qom@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> References: <4epmp7$6t3@ntucsz.csie.ntu.edu.tw> <4eusir$fql@panix2.panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lestat.nas.nasa.gov In article <4eusir$fql@panix2.panix.com>, Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> wrote: >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. I don't think that's completely fair to diskless configurations :-) Many sysadmin's agree that one of the easiest to manage "glorified X terminal" configurations is a diskless one. -- Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939