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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Diskless FreeBSD, how?
Date: 6 Jul 1996 22:55:49 GMT
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dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) wrote:

> Check out the Handbook and the FAQ, we're using FreeBSD to run diskless
> xterms here, and found all the info we needed in those places.

Indeed.  I've just done my first diskless setup today, and assuming
you've got something you can use as a template root file system for
your clients, i've got the setup in less than 15 minutes.

Impressing. :)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)