eho@bogey.princeton.edu (Eric Y.W. Ho) (06/02/89)
Is there anyone at Sun seriously contemplating putting SunOS on optifloppies (I mean for servers & dataless clients) ? I mean currently relying on using tapes to bootstrap & load your system is too constraining. Morever, if your / & /usr partitions got damaged then you've to do quite a bit of work to get your system back up again. If you've all the important stuff (i.e. all the system files/binaries ...etc..) on the optifloppies then one may be able to make a mirror image of those things and when you do indeed managed to damage say the root partition, all you need to do is to kick in your other optifloppy and go. Also, using optifloppy to store all these system stuff seems to be more reliable than using hard disks. Perhaps the important point here is quick turnaround time and ease of use -- that means that one can easily try out different OS releases (or even different OS'es) by simply ejecting the current optifloppy and insert a new one in. Eric Ho Princeton Cognitive Science Lab., Princeton University email = eho@phoenix.princeton.edu voice = 609-987-2819