deanr@lakesys.UUCP (Dean Roth) (03/02/89)
(Sorry if this appears twice, but my node burped after I posted the first message.) I am looking for a MS-DOS disk emulator for UNIX, Ethernet and TCP/IP, and the appropriate device driver for a PC. Does such a beast exist? I may need to implement the disk emulator on multiple UNIX systems, some 68020/030, some 80386 based. Alternatively, does a loader exist that can be ROMed into a PC that will load a program at boot time from Ethernet & TCP/IP from a UNIX host? I am looking for a diskless PC solution using any UNIX, Ethernet and TCP/IP system. Using a system like 3Com's is not an option in this situation. Dean deanr@lakesys.lakesys.com {rutgers, uwvax} uwmcsd1!lakesys!deanr
curci@stat.uucp (Ray Curci (scri)) (03/03/89)
In article <438@lakesys.UUCP> deanr@lakesys.UUCP (Dean Roth) writes: >I am looking for a MS-DOS disk emulator for UNIX, Ethernet >and TCP/IP, and the appropriate device driver for a PC. >Does such a beast exist? I may need to implement the disk emulator >on multiple UNIX systems, some 68020/030, some 80386 based. >deanr@lakesys.lakesys.com >{rutgers, uwvax} uwmcsd1!lakesys!deanr I am not sure that I understand your questions, but I think what you are looking for is PC-NFS from Sun Microsystems. PC-NFS will run on almost any PC/XT/AT/PS2 machine with a variety of ethernet boards (WD, 3COM, etc.) You can set it up so that the PC will mount filesystems on a UNIX host providing NFS server. From MS-DOS, there appear new networked disks like D: that correspond to the mounted file system. You can sometimes get in trouble with multiple people running non-networked applications that write to the same files, but this is almost unavoidable using ms-dos. curci@nu.cs.fsu.edu