Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ur-valhalla!jal From: jal@ee.rochester.edu (John Lefor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Diskless NeXT's?? Message-ID: <1989Aug8.192101.3060@ee.rochester.edu> Date: 8 Aug 89 19:21:01 GMT Reply-To: jal@ee.rochester.edu Distribution: na Organization: University of Rochester Dept. of Electrical Engineering Lines: 23 We have a student laboratory filled with some NeXT's that will be connected to our departmental ethernet. We are planning on having three of the NeXT's run diskless and have a 660Mb in the fourth to provide disk services. It occurs to us that in this environment, a student could insert their own optical disk and defeat some of the controls we have instituted. Thus the question - is it possible to defeat the optical disk for purposes of system boot without completely disabling the optical? If this is not possible now, would NeXT consider such an option i nthe near future. Universities want to know. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I program ... therefore I am. John Lefor University of Rochester Dept of E. Engineering 716-275-8265 jal@ee.rochester.edu uunet!ur-valhalla!jal