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From: U42641@uicvm.uic.edu (Richard K. Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: remot booting of macs
Message-ID: <91151.182904U42641@uicvm.uic.edu>
Date: 31 May 91 23:29:04 GMT
References: <1991May31.151351.1797@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at>
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
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In article <1991May31.151351.1797@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at>,
a4424dac@awiuni11.bitnet says:
>
>we want to boot our Macintosh Computers from a central server.
>All Mac+s are connected to an Ethernet LAN.
>The proplem is that our Macintosh Computers are really DISKLESS -
>this means that the have no hard disk and NO FLOPPY DISK inside.
>
>I know that you can boot MS/DOS machines with an BOOT-ROM on your
>Ethernet Interface. Is this service available for Mac+s too?

I, too, am interested in this.

Apparently the Mac LC, IIsi, and IIfx have the capability to do remote
booting but there seems to be no server software to take advantage of
it . . . yet.

I've heard that AppleShare 3.0 is supposed to support remote booting
of Macs.  This is just a MacWeek rumor though . . .

>Manfred Schmiedl
>University of Vienna
>eMail: A4424DAC@AWIUNI11.BITNET or Internet:
>       A4424DAC@HELIOS.EDVZ.UNIVIE.AC.AT

Richard K. Wolf
University of Illinois at Chicago
U42641@uicvm.uic.edu
U42641@UICVM.BITNET