On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 18:15, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > I've looked yesterday at Walla news at this URL: > http://news.walla.co.il/ts.cgi?tsscript=item&path=4&id=230631 > > In the Article, IBM claimed they have a new revolutionary way that no-hard > disk is needed, and it can boot from network... > > I'm pretty sure that many people have been done (or doing) this before - X > terminals, booting DOS using pboot with a simple EPROM chip on the network so > it can loads other parts (or in case of Linux/Unix machines - asks for IP and > running another parts of the boot).. > > So whats revolutionary here? I fail to see it..
The idea is that with iBoot your OS doesn't need to be aware that it boots from a remote disk. The whole "diskless" thing is completely transparent to the OS and the user. It works via iSCSI, which is SCSI over IP. For more details: http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/projects/storage/iboot/ -- Alex Shnitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://alexsh.hectic.net/ UIN 188956 PGP 0xEC5D619D / E1 F2 7B 6C A0 31 80 28 63 B8 02 BA 65 C7 8B BA ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
