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From: halam@umnd-cpe-cola.d.umn.edu (hasseen alam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: (almost) diskless macs
Keywords: links diskless servers
Message-ID: <3110@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>
Date: 9 Jan 90 03:40:11 GMT
References: <7032@tank.uchicago.edu>
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Reply-To: halam@umnd-cpe-cola.UUCP (Haseen Alam)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth Computer Science
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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 am not exactly sure if my answer is going to help you or not.  I work
on a Mac Graphics Lab on campus.  I have created a Mac volume on our
Unix based mainframe.  Just by typing " setup_aufs ", and giving a Mac
volume name.  After that I can connect to the mainframe and through
AppleShare and it will gives me a DEMON Iconed disk.  Which is just like
an extra disk to me.  I can get upto 16Meg per volume.  It shows all
files and Icons.  It is not as fast as my internal HD but just as fast
as my floppy drive.  I can set it to reopen automatically each time I
login, but cant boot from it.  Suitcase can (I think so) load fonts and
DA's from a different drive.  But I never tried it.

AUFS stands for Apple Unis File Server.  My unix system has man pages on
aufs.  If you need more info let me know.

Haseen.