On 28-Feb-2003 Terry Lambert wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: >> Or you can use PXE at your provisioning center and have the >> BIOS setup to boot from the hard disk first, which will fail >> for the initial boot and fall back to PXE. Then once the box >> is installed you ship it to its destination. > > This is a possibility; however, there are a number of system > failure scenarios that make this undesirable. Specifically, > it's desirable to support the idea of a fallback boot (e.g. > "nextboot") for a partially functional system, to downgrade > it automatically, and make it at least something other than a > doorstop on which one has to pay international shipping. In > your scenario, there's no possible reupgrade method.
We perform upgrades in the field using a different transport. In the case of major problems it is possible to ship a new drive out to a system. >> We just launched a closed-box appliance yesterday. Actually, >> it's going live to actual customers in about an hour and a >> half, but I digress. :) > > You should shout it to the world... at least post a press release > to -advocacy! The real press release is coming from my company's PR department. Not sure of an ETA though. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
