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From: carl@doctor.tymnet.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Booting from server over network
Keywords: Networks
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Date: 4 Oct 89 07:44:24 GMT
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We have experienced exactly the same "slow" response.  We have 6 3/280s
acting as a large NFS system and wanted to use an alternate root/swap/usr
partition (as a client of another server) in case of catastrophic failure
of the primary disk on each server.

It took more than 15 minutes to boot the server as a client of another one
of our servers.  This is appalling!!!

-Carl

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