Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!magorian From: magorian@umd5.umd.edu (Dan Magorian) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: What's the best NETWORK? Message-ID: <2722@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 12 May 88 16:59:19 GMT References: <1814@uhccux.UUCP> <1815@uhccux.UUCP> <781@sleazy.UUCP> <1075@aucs.UUCP> <3262@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> Reply-To: magorian@umd5 (Dan Magorian) Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 37 >In <1075@aucs.UUCP>, paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele) said: >>>My Mac is running diskless, ie my system resides on one of the Sun servers. >>I am curious about the diskless Mac workstation. Does TOPS allow a Mac to >>boot without any inserted disks? I was under the impression that that was >>not possible with a networked device, that there had to be some sort of >>local hard disk to boot from before a mac can access the Appletalk network. > >It is certainly possible to *run* a Mac with out a local disk. It is >impossible to *boot* a Mac without a local disk, or w/out custom hardware that >has been added into a Mac to allow it to do so. You need to start out >with a System file. You also need to have a System file that you are >using all the time you are running MacOS. You can, if you want, switch >System files in the middle, which is what was done with Tops in the >doubly quoted comment above. >-- >Peter "Arrgh" Korn >korn@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU >{decvax,dual,hplabs,sdcsvax,ulysses}!ucbvax!korn - Do you or anyone have experience with boot proms on Apple Ethertalk cards? This is commonly done on PCs (eg, 3Com to boot from their XNS 3Share server, as well as Suns (seems to be no standard boot protocol in the IP world)). Probably the 3Com people who designed the Ethertalk card for Apple have done it, but the support for it in the MacOS seems to be a hot issue (read, sensitive until the recall issue is behind them). Anyone care to speak up? - Dan Magorian Comp Sci Ctr Univ of Maryland 301 454-6032 magorian@umd5.umd.edu magorian@umdd.bitnet Applelink A0190 - - - -