From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5262985d4f1f1ec45b8c10339a54de7b@quintile.net> From: "Steve Simon" Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:22:07 +0100 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Diskless cpu servers In-Reply-To: <4488C16E.3050404@tecmav.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 634f5e88-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Some people have used IDE flash cards in CPU/auth nodes to make them at least rotating disk less if not actually network booting. You could keep the net boot and just store an nvram partition on the flash card. For part numbers check the 9fans archives. -Steve