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From: denbeste@bgsuvax.UUCP (William C. DenBesten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What's the best NETWORK?
Message-ID: <2285@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 23 May 88 13:11:33 GMT
References: <9388@reed.UUCP>
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
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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?

From article <9388@reed.UUCP>, by mdr@reed.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg):
>
> 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.

The problem with giving everyone their own disk is that once someone has
a disk, they are not going to buy a new one, or bother to update it when
you put a new version of the disk out, and you will have many old versions
being run.

I wouldn't strap them in.  This would make it harder to restore bad disks
and would make it a pain for people that want to use both drives to back up
their diskettes.

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          William C. DenBesten |       denbeste@bgsu.edu
      Dept of Computer Science | CSNET denbeste%andy.bgsu.edu@relay.cs.net
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