On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Garrett Cooper wrote:
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2006-12-02 20:05, Kevin Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12/2/06, Alexander Kabaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I personally think that having a dedicated box in disk-less
configuration is the best option out there. [...]
Alexander, when you say disk-less configuration, are you referring to
booting from a network image/server? That's an interesting idea. I'm
fairly new to FreeBSD development also, and prefer the speed of a
dedicated box, but recently suffered my first corrupted beyond repair
system.
Yes, a "diskless" boot is a network-based boot :-)
Look into BOOTP for that:
<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-diskless.html>.
You may want to just use vmware (best reliable solution, IMO but it costs
money), depending on what resources you have on hand and what you're trying
to accomplish.
If using FreeBSD on i386/amd64 boxes, use PXE. There are quite a few "instant
setup" web pages out there that tell you how to get it running. pxeboot makes
life incredibly easy, as you can load kernels, modules, configurations, etc,
over NFS.
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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