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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!s1.elec.uq.oz.au!clary From: clary@s1.elec.uq.oz.au (Clary Harridge) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Diskless Freebsd Date: 14 Dec 1993 04:21:45 GMT Organization: Dept. of Elec. and Comp. Engineering, Uni of Queensland Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2ejf0p$kr@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au> Reply-To: clary@s1.elec.uq.oz.au NNTP-Posting-Host: s2.elec.uq.oz.au Keywords: diskless Hi can you please advise whether it is possible to set up a Freebsd server to support several diskless clients. The clients could boot Freebsd from Floppy, then NFS mount file systems from the server. The crux of the problem would seem to be whether Freebsd can swap to a remote disk on the server. Please email any suggestions. Thanks! -- regards Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Clary Harridge University of Queensland, QLD, Australia, 4072 Phone: +61-7-365-3636 Fax: +61-7-365-4999 INTERNET: clary@s1.elec.uq.oz.au