a4424dac@awiuni11.bitnet (05/31/91)
Hello everybody,
we want to BOOT our Macintosh Computers from a central server.
All Mac+s are connected to an Ethernet LAN.
The proplem is that our Macintosh Computers are really DISKLESS -
this means that the have no hard disk and NO FLOPPY DISK inside.
I know that you can boot MS/DOS machines with an BOOT-ROM on your
Ethernet Interface. Is this service available for Mac+s too?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Manfred Schmiedl
University of Vienna
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PS: Please mail directly to me - Thank you ......bellamy@covax.commerce.uq.oz.au (06/03/91)
In article <1991May31.135436.937@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at>, a4424dac@awiuni11.bitnet writes: > Hello everybody, > > we want to BOOT our Macintosh Computers from a central server. > All Mac+s are connected to an Ethernet LAN. > The proplem is that our Macintosh Computers are really DISKLESS - > this means that the have no hard disk and NO FLOPPY DISK inside. > > I know that you can boot MS/DOS machines with an BOOT-ROM on your > Ethernet Interface. Is this service available for Mac+s too? AppleShare 3.0 due in Sept/October (1991 maybe) will provide remote booting. All we need now is a ROM upgrade for the thousands (millions) of Mac+s out there to support this feature. Then we will be able to run 7.0 on a Plus! -- David E. Bellamy Email: bellamy@covax.commerce.uq.oz.au Dept. Commerce, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, AUSTRALIA
Metamorphosis (06/03/91)
In article <1991Jun3.114701.2995@covax.commerce.uq.oz.au> bellamy@covax.commerce.uq.oz.au writes: >AppleShare 3.0 due in Sept/October (1991 maybe) will provide remote booting. > >All we need now is a ROM upgrade for the thousands (millions) of Mac+s out >there to support this feature. Then we will be able to run 7.0 on a Plus! > >-- >David E. Bellamy 7.0 on a Plus? From a *file server*? You must be out of your mind-- 7.0 runs like a snail on a Plus, even from a local hard drive. Running 7.0 from a Plus-- off a *file server* would be rather like throwing the Mac through a vat of molasses: possible in theory, but not a terribly useful idea in practice... - Meta
inei@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Nick Nei) (06/04/91)
> 7.0 on a Plus? From a *file server*? You must be out of your mind-- > 7.0 runs like a snail on a Plus, even from a local hard drive. Running > 7.0 from a Plus-- off a *file server* would be rather like throwing the > Mac through a vat of molasses: possible in theory, but not a terribly > useful idea in practice... You also won't get Virtual memory, and other things I can't remember off-hand. But will AppleShare 3.0 work on System 6.*? If so then remote boot with Pluses would be quite nice. Mail: Nick Nei, Computing Science Dept., Glasgow Univ., 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK. Tel: (041) 339 8855 x 5457 ARPA: inei%uk.ac.glasgow.dcs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk USENET: inei@cs.glasgow.uucp