RE: Bootable CDs (was Re: Interest in diskless booting?)

2003-01-16 Thread JoeB
(was Re: Interest in diskless booting?) On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Garance A Drosihn wrote: One of the students here at RPI worked on a project for the custom cd-rom idea. It's at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/freebsdtogo/ I've spent the weekend experimenting with the various methods of making

RE: Bootable CDs (was Re: Interest in diskless booting?)

2003-01-16 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, JoeB wrote: Have you been able to get any of the methods to work repeatable? Yes. http://www.FreeSBIE.org works. It has an active group; the mailing list just switched from Italian to English, too. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-10 Thread Joshua Coombs
I've been beating on freebsd diskless for awhile now and would love to see some hard docs on it. My current goal is to get an iPaq IA1 stable under FreeBSD diskless using nothing but a 32M CF card and a USB nic. I'm oh so close but still dealing with random locks under load. (BTW, booting off CF

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-10 Thread Joshua Coombs
Coombs - Original Message - From: J. Seth Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Joshua Coombs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 7:01 PM Subject: Re: Interest in diskless booting? I have a working install of FBSD 4.7R running on a 340MB microdrive. It's

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-09 Thread Pranav A. Desai
Hi! I would definitely be interested ... especially in a CD based system ... after reading about linux running on Xbox on PS2 ... -Pranav On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-09 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Garance A Drosihn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Besides, if you had a nice book with an accurate and detailed info on how to do build such systems, then you wouldn't have to waste any time searching those web sites... :-) You missed the whole point of my message: The very existance of people's

Re: Bootable CDs (was Re: Interest in diskless booting?)

2002-12-09 Thread Philip Hallstrom
One of the students here at RPI worked on a project for the custom cd-rom idea. It's at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/freebsdtogo/ I've spent the weekend experimenting with the various methods of making bootable FreeBSD CDs. LiveCD died with an unlogged error just before it was

Re: Bootable CDs (was Re: Interest in diskless booting?)

2002-12-09 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Philip Hallstrom wrote: LiveCD died with an unlogged error just before it was ready to build an ISO. Hmm... I've used LiveCD to build a CD with Apache/Postgres on it.. mkisofs -b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot -c boot/boot.catalog -R -J -V LiveCD -o ../LiveCD.iso . It

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 9 December 2002 at 17:48:14 -0800, Lou Katz wrote: On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:48:35PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-09 Thread Wilkinson,Alex
Definitely add it! - aW On Monday, 9 December 2002 at 17:48:14 -0800, Lou Katz wrote: On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:48:35PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-08 Thread Jonathan Clarke
I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the fourth edition of The Complete FreeBSD, and I was

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-08 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:48:35PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:54 PM -0800 12/8/02, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: I mostly-wasted a bunch of time investigating web sites and articles which had schemes for diskless booting, and then discovered that the picobsd manpage told me everything I needed to know (to set up a non-harddisk filtering bridge booting off

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 8 December 2002 at 17:36:51 -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 12:54 PM -0800 12/8/02, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: I mostly-wasted a bunch of time investigating web sites and articles which had schemes for diskless booting, and then discovered that the picobsd manpage told me

RE: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-08 Thread Cambria, Mike
I'd be interested as well. In addition a section on building a minimal FreeBSD (e.g. for a Soekris box), that one books diskless (in lieu of GENERIC) would be even better. I don't think any other title covers this to date. MikeC -Original Message- From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey

Bootable CDs (was Re: Interest in diskless booting?)

2002-12-08 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Garance A Drosihn wrote: One of the students here at RPI worked on a project for the custom cd-rom idea. It's at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/freebsdtogo/ I've spent the weekend experimenting with the various methods of making bootable FreeBSD CDs. LiveCD died

RE: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-08 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Cambria, Mike wrote: I'd be interested as well. Likewise. In addition a section on building a minimal FreeBSD (e.g. for a Soekris box), that one books diskless (in lieu of GENERIC) would be even better. I don't think any other title covers this to date. You may find

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread Glenn Johnson
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:48:35PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread Joel McGraw
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the fourth edition of The Complete

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:48:35PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread Len Conrad
I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the fourth edition of The Complete FreeBSD, and I was

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 7 December 2002 at 20:47:29 -0600, Len Conrad wrote: I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread Doug Poland
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:48:35PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread paul beard
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the fourth edition of The

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:48 PM +1030 12/8/02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:28 AM -0500 12/8/02, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 12:48 PM +1030 12/8/02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: If *you* are interested, please let me know. I'll make a decision depending on the amount of feedback I get. There's at least two cases, right? diskless booting off something like a

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Sun, 8 Dec 2002 it looks like Greg 'groggy' Lehey composed: If *you* are interested, please let me know. I'll make a decision depending on the amount of feedback I get. Yes, I'd be very interested :) -- |--Word-Wrap-At-72-Please--| Bill Schoolcraft

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:48:35PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:28:02AM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 12:48 PM +1030 12/8/02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or