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From: waynee@charlie.OZ (Wayne Eason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: (almost) diskless macs
Keywords: links diskless servers
Message-ID: <7930@charlie.OZ>
Date: 8 Jan 90 02:38:39 GMT
References: <7032@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: waynee@charlie.UUCP (Wayne Eason)
Organization: Deakin University
Lines: 33

In article <7032@tank.uchicago.edu> rtp1@tank.uchicago.edu (raymond thomas pierrehumbert) writes:
>
>  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.

I would also like to know an answer to this!!!! Also, with the requirements of
system 7.0 it is becoing a major issue. We are running an Appleshare file server
to a Mac plus lab and we do not wish to install individual hard disks


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