Subject: Re: Fully-discless booting
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
From: Gavan Fantom <gavan@coolfactor.org>
List: port-arm26
Date: 07/30/2000 19:25:22
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Ben Harris wrote:

> > That would be very useful indeed, even for those who want to use RISC OS
> > on a mixed RISC OS/UNIX network.
> 
> *grin* There is a _reason_ I haven't released that code (much).  As a
> general file server, it's appalling.  It just happens to have enough
> features to be bootable-from.  It can't currently handle multiple users or
> writing to files, for instance.

I bet it'd still be fun to play with. ;-)

Seriously though, I bet it would be useful for people trying to get better
Internet software onto RISC OS machines. I know I've been stung by the
lack of floppy discs around here before.

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