xtnewcastle@levels.sait.edu.au (David Morrison) (12/19/90)
I want to set up a lab of 50 Mac LCs with Ethernet cards, all operating off a file server. The file server may be Appleshare or it may be Novell. Is it possible to have the Macs remote boot from the server without having to start from a floppy? David Morrison, Networks and Comms, Uni of Newcastle, Australia sysnet@cc.newcastle.edu.au
minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) (12/20/90)
by xtnewcastle@levels.sait.edu.au (David Morrison): | I want to set up a lab of 50 Mac LCs with Ethernet cards, all | operating off a file server. The file server may be Appleshare | or it may be Novell. Is it possible to have the Macs remote boot | from the server without having to start from a floppy? | | sysnet@cc.newcastle.edu.au I don't really know what Apple really has up its sleeve but after playing with the Classic's ROM disk and "talking" to an Apple salescritter, it appears that remote booting will be possible with AppleShare 3.0 whenever that's released. (With sys 7, maybe?) I assume that the LC and IIsi have similar capabilities in their ROMs, but I could be wrong. I don't know of anything that will currently let you boot off a fileserver although _I_ have pondered such a ploy myself. A SCSI/Ethernet box with enough smarts to pretend to be a SCSI disk while really talking AFP to a server on the ether. Heck, you might even forget about AppleShare if the thing was efficient and it would work on all Macs from the Plus onward. <daydream mode off> -- |_ /| | Robert Minich | |\'o.O' | Oklahoma State University| "I'm a newcomer here, but does the |=(___)= | minich@d.cs.okstate.edu | net ever lay any argument to rest?" | U | - Ackphtth | -- dan herrick