Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: eho@cognito.princeton.edu (Eric Ho) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: sunos on a floppy? Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: Date: 30 Mar 89 12:38:43 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Cognitive Science Lab. Princeton University. Lines: 18 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 15 Mar 89 06:13:47 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 215, message 12 of 19 Has anyone out there thought about or heard of people who are re-engineering sunos such that a diskless node can boot up off some kind of high density portable storage devices (e.g. optifloppy or whatever that can be put in one's pocket) as a standalone (or whatever) when all servers on the net are down (e.g. as in a scheduled shutdown situation) so that one can still continue one's work as usual (provided of course that what is on the optifloppy or whatever is adequate and up-to-date) ? This will be particularly useful when one wants to take one's work home (literally) over the weekend. Eric Ho Princeton Cognitive Science Lab., Princeton University email = eho@phoenix.princeton.edu voice = 609-987-2987 -- regards. -eric-