On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 11:01:08PM -0600, Curtis (Jewell) Whalen wrote:
> >Method Two
> >- ----------
> >Use a linux bootable disk with mprime on it set to automatically
> >load on boot, again only manual testing, with temporary files
>
> I REALLY like this idea.
I've actually done something like this. I have three machines, that have
essentially the following components:
- Celeron (of varying overclocked speeds)
- 440BX motherboard (for 100 MHz memory bus)
- 32 MB PC100 RAM
- NE2000 clone network adapter
- floppy drive
- case (not into wiring my own power supplies)
No keyboard, video, or hard drive. The floppy boots a Linux kernel which
mounts an NFS root file system from a networked P90 (the same P90 is the
file server for all three machines). The mprime files are stored on the
P90 - in fact, I only have one boot disk, I just move it from one machine
to another when I boot them. They talk to the primenet server through an
HTTP proxy, and are pretty much hands-off operation. Works really well.
Greg Hewgill
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