[H-GEN] Floppy disk print server
Robert Brockway
robert at timetraveller.org
Thu Oct 24 07:31:59 EDT 2002
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Patrick Nichols wrote:
Hi Patrick.
> 1. Floppy boot samba server. Don't know if this is possible. Is it?
Floppy boot and nfsroot mount. No problem. Can run what you want.
> 2. Floppy boot lpd server. The other machine can be a samba print server,
> and pass information to the lpd server in true *n*x style.
Even better.
> 3. Etherboot off the network, and mount a share with samba on it from
> across the network.
>
> Which is the easiest, which works the best, which way would you go about
> this problem?
Option 3 is etherboot is viable. I much prefer this to floppy boot as
floppies are too prone to failure. You can nfsroot mount following the
etherboot & run what you want (lpd, lpd & samba, etc).
If Option 3 isn't available, then option 2.
Cheers,
-Rob
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