🚀 go-pugleaf

Jake Messinger said

>On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Jeff Haas wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 10:18:14AM -0800, Mike Greene wrote:
>> > To add a floppy to the PM would invite more
>> > problems than it would be worth.
>> 
>> Obviously you've never played with a PM-11 before. :-)
>
>Are you voting FOR a floppy drive? Believe me, after rebuilding 200+ pm
>11's, you wouldn't want a floppy in your term server.

how about a CD?  A Zip drive? A hard drive? or perhaps a USB of SCSI port 
for such an input device?  Someone else had mentioned a dual flash?  I 
like this idea the best, this way if the unit does fail during upgrade it 
could boot off the other flash.  Similar to the Mac setup: Macs look for 
a floppy by default, if they cannot find one they look to the CD or other 
input device.  The Hard Drive is always last.  I keep a dual OS setup on 
all our servers.  This way if one drive fails I can recover the system 
quickly and then just restore files from backup.  

So many people seem to have missed my point, which was not to be naive 
with a callous statement "it should not fail."  What I am trying to say 
is that I would like to see some redundancy in a form that does not 
require netbooting as you tend to have to be on site, unless you happen 
to leave a tftp server  and permanent console connected to each unit in 
every POP.  Netboot should be a last resort.  There is no real 
"in-between" for failure recovery.

I must admit I have enjoyed reading the typically snide remarks from the 
same arrogant know-it-alls.  Sometimes it seems like if you make a 
suggestion on this list you are chastised for it.  I have never 
complained about the PM3 or its OS and have had tremendous success with 
it.  But the one time a complaint comes out of my mouth the abuse begins. 
 I have seen it happen to so many others on this list and it mainly 
emanates from the grand poo-ba of rude remarks,(who's the poo-ba? this 
goes without saying) These negative comments are quite counter productive.

jer


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