At 12:48 PM +1030 12/8/02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the fourth edition of "The Complete FreeBSD", and I was wondering if there was enough interest in this topic for me to include it in the book. If *you* are interested, please let me know. I'll make a decision depending on the amount of feedback I get.
There's at least two cases, right? diskless booting off something like a custom CD-ROM, and diskless booting over the network?
One of the students here at RPI worked on a project for the custom cd-rom idea. It's at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/freebsdtogo/ He's used this to make CD's which boot up a laptop, and run without touching anything on the hard disk. I know he has it working for the 4.x-branch, and I believe he also updated it for the 5.0-current branch. This is very useful for having students use there laptops to take tests, while having the instructor have complete control over "what they are running". (and not having to worry about the state of things on the student's hard disk) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
