Is it possible to have Diskless workstation in freebsd

Dak Ghatikachalam dghatikachalam at gmail.com
Tue Jan 16 02:48:39 UTC 2007


wow, this is great place to start,

I will update again later
Thanks a lot


Dak
On 1/15/07, applecom at inbox.ru <applecom at inbox.ru> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:18:21 +0500, Dak Ghatikachalam
> <dghatikachalam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a need to setup 3 workstations to boot remotely without any ( OS)
> > on
> > local disks,
> >
> > What are ways to go about achieving that,
> >
> > I want the users to have all their utilities and files stores all back
> > stored in the remote server.
> >
> > But confusion how the OS going to detect the correct local Hardware
> > resources for it to run  right drivers, example being the VGA driver,
> > local
> > keyboard and mouse.
>
> There is a "27.6 Diskless Operation" paragraph in FreeBSD Handbook
> (
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-diskless.html
> )
> and article "Diskless X Server: a how to guide"
> (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/diskless-x/index.html
> ).
> Maybe it helps.
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