From: rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen) Subject: Re: SLS Distribution over net... Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 04:58:13 GMT
In article <1pcuueINN8sb@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> alexei@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Alexei Rodriguez) writes:
>Hey folks. Simple problem, complex solution?
>Here at UF there is a setup that will install Mach
>on a PC by just popping a NIC (network interface card) in the
>PC, booting, connects to net and installs over the net.
>
>I would like to do something similar for the SLS distribution
>(have it reside on a local disk and just have people come in,
>put a NIC in and install SLS for them).
>
>Has anyone done something similar? Any ideas on the best
>way to implement this?
>
Join the NET channel. This has been kicked around a few times - there
was even some code written. The long and short of it is wait for
Fred's new net stuff and Donalds's ethernet drivers to make it into
the standard kernel. With the new run-time configuration support
this will be fairly easy to implement.
This is also part of the reason SLS's ethernet config stuff isn't as
'nice' as SCO's. All in good time.
- Rob