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From: edwards@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (mark edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Booting a vaxstation from a decstation?
Message-ID: <2541@dogie.macc.wisc.edu>
Date: 13 Oct 89 19:37:42 GMT
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Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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We are thinking about buying some machines. One idea that I had was to 
use a DecStation 3100 as disk server and buy diskless VaxStation 3100.
I glanced through the Diskless Management Guide in Ultrix and could 
not find any reference that it couldn't be done. I know that all 
satellite workstations could have their own root file system and thus 
their own kernels, but what about the /usr file system? There was
some reference to a shared usr file system but it wasn't clear what
it was. Anybody have any thoughts or ideas on this?

If this is possible then what about a Diskless NeXT booting off of 
a DecStation 3100?


thanks
mark
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