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
eMail: A4424DAC@AWIUNI11.BITNET or Internet:
A4424DAC@HELIOS.EDVZ.UNIVIE.AC.AT
PS: Please mail directly to me - Thank you ......U42641@uicvm.uic.edu (Richard K. Wolf) (06/01/91)
In article <1991May31.151351.1797@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at>, a4424dac@awiuni11.bitnet says: > >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? I, too, am interested in this. Apparently the Mac LC, IIsi, and IIfx have the capability to do remote booting but there seems to be no server software to take advantage of it . . . yet. I've heard that AppleShare 3.0 is supposed to support remote booting of Macs. This is just a MacWeek rumor though . . . >Manfred Schmiedl >University of Vienna >eMail: A4424DAC@AWIUNI11.BITNET or Internet: > A4424DAC@HELIOS.EDVZ.UNIVIE.AC.AT Richard K. Wolf University of Illinois at Chicago U42641@uicvm.uic.edu U42641@UICVM.BITNET