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From: rtp1@tank.uchicago.edu (raymond thomas pierrehumbert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: (almost) diskless macs
Keywords: links diskless servers
Message-ID: <7032@tank.uchicago.edu>
Date: 5 Jan 90 05:15:19 GMT
Organization: University of Chicago
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  I have a nice file server working, courtesy of GatorShare and misc.
Unix boxes around the place.  There are a lot of non-hard drive macs
around also, and it would be nice to make them more useful.  The 
problem is that it is very hard (actually impossible) to put all the
inits, fonts, da's, drivers, etc . on an 800k floppy.  I'm not
expecting a Mac Plus to cold boot over the network, but it seems
Apple has created the problem by requiring all system related files
to be in a single system folder.  A nice extension of the OS would
be to allow the system to access printer drivers, fonts, and DA's
located on an arbitrary volume.  If symbolic links were introduced,
this would be a snap.
    Perhaps some existing third party software would already help out?
Does Suitcase do the trick?  Please email responses to me as well
as posting, as it is easy to miss things in the flood going through
c.s.m.