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From: mdr@reed.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What's the best NETWORK?
Message-ID: <9388@reed.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 88 00:13:10 GMT
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Reply-To: mdr@reed.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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Daniel J. Oberst writes:
>We've been looking at the problem of getting hard-diskless Macs on to
>servers and the logistics of providing the "boot up" they need to get
>on a server here at Princeton.  For the present, it seems that somehow
>we need to get a floppy disk into those machines.  Any ideas on how?
>   1) mass produce and distribute start-up disks?
>   2) strap/lock boot disks into the machines?
>   3) put them in vending machines on campus?
>   4) keep boxes of them available in the labs?

You could create floppies with a complete system (set up to automatically open
a server volume as "Guest"), and sell them for $2.  You can also provide write
protected floppies that people can copy if they already own diskettes.

A floppy is really cheap to create (especially using some of the disk utility
packages, with disk copy programs).  I suspect it is worth giving each person
their own.

Mike