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Article #44971Re: (almost) diskless macs
From: Wayne Eason
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 02:38
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 02:38
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In article <7032@tank.uchicago.edu> rtp1@tank.uchicago.edu (raymond thomas pierrehumbert) writes:
>
> I have a nice file server working, courtesy of GatorShare and misc.
>Unix boxes around the place. There are a lot of non-hard drive macs
>around also, and it would be nice to make them more useful. The
>problem is that it is very hard (actually impossible) to put all the
>inits, fonts, da's, drivers, etc . on an 800k floppy. I'm not
>expecting a Mac Plus to cold boot over the network, but it seems
>Apple has created the problem by requiring all system related files
>to be in a single system folder. A nice extension of the OS would
>be to allow the system to access printer drivers, fonts, and DA's
>located on an arbitrary volume. If symbolic links were introduced,
>this would be a snap.
> Perhaps some existing third party software would already help out?
>Does Suitcase do the trick? Please email responses to me as well
>as posting, as it is easy to miss things in the flood going through
>c.s.m.
I would also like to know an answer to this!!!! Also, with the requirements of
system 7.0 it is becoing a major issue. We are running an Appleshare file server
to a Mac plus lab and we do not wish to install individual hard disks
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!charlie!waynee From: waynee@charlie.OZ (Wayne Eason) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: (almost) diskless macs Keywords: links diskless servers Message-ID: <7930@charlie.OZ> Date: 8 Jan 90 02:38:39 GMT References: <7032@tank.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: waynee@charlie.UUCP (Wayne Eason) Organization: Deakin University Lines: 33