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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
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Organization: University of Rochester Dept. of Electrical Engineering
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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.


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John Lefor    	University of Rochester		Dept of E. Engineering
716-275-8265	jal@ee.rochester.edu		uunet!ur-valhalla!jal