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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!pavo.csi.cam.ac.uk!ag129
- From: ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
- Subject: Remote boot image server?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.002439.26255@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Organization: U of Cambridge, England
- References: <1993Jan8.192023.24164@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1993Jan8.232426.625@novell.com>
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:24:39 GMT
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- The remote booting process currently used, needing a separate image for
- each combination of machine parameters, is really cumbersome. Would it
- be feasible to
- a) replace whichever component of NetWare which does the boot image
- serving (is it an NLM?)?
- or b) set up a server to respond to the boot requests, in place of
- the NetWare server? Is the protocol publicly documented?
- Has anyone done something like this? My current system uses a lot of
- C code to generate BAT files full of COPY statements to build the boot
- floppies (in theory it could write the boot images directly, if it knew
- about FAT tables and stuff), but even though this goes some way to
- solving the maintenance hassles, the 0.6MB of space taken up by each
- image is a huge waste. It surely can't be right to store a hundred copies
- of NETX.EXE, one in each image!
-
- I can't believe Novell think this is the right way to do things. Is it
- going to get better in 4.0?
-