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From: rroot@edm.UUCP (uucp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Advice Wanted on File Servers for a Diskless Network
Message-ID: <267@edm.UUCP>
Date: 20 Apr 88 06:18:03 GMT
References: <13504@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Organization: Unexsys Systems, Edmonton,AB.
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From article <13504@comp.vuw.ac.nz>, by duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Duncan McEwan):
> Regarding the choice of workstation.  I believe it is possible for Sun
> workstations to boot over NFS now, rather than using the old "nd" protocol.
> Would this be possible with a Pyramid acting as a file server, or would
> we need at least one Sun file server?  
If nothing else you could look at putting one real cheap disk on one of the
suns, and then have all the machines look to the Pyramid for the rest of their
file server work.. (needless to say, I've never done this)
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