Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdragon!jmsellens
From: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What's the best NETWORK?
Message-ID: <6938@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 19 May 88 17:07:22 GMT
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In article <6555@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Pierce T. Wetter) writes:
>
>     Anyone who wants to run a macintosh as a diskless node is a moron.
>
>     Why? Every mac shipped comes with at least one floppy drive. Why not use
> it if its there?

If you can boot diskless you avoid the problems of
- corrupted boot disks
- different versions of system software and printer drivers
- requiring every user to have a diskette, or trying to keep the machine's
  disk from wandering away
- trying to update who knows how many system disks when the software changes
- you could possibly disable the floppy disk drive so that people are
  unable to steal software off the server
- I'm sure that there's more good reasons

It would be a big administrative convenience, especially if you're dealing
with public and/or student labs.