15 Sep
2000
15 Sep
'00
6:47 p.m.
Not that I don't think having the option of booting from network is a good idea, but are people really booting from their floppies that often?
I agree, booting off floppy is exceptionally rare, especially combined with 'floppy-boot? true'. The biggest problem is the dependence on floppy boots for firmware upgrades -- we've got a 720 that's 3000+ miles away in a colo rack w/ no available hands to insert a floppy for us.
I'd gladly be willing to donate a few megs off of one disk to hold a firmware upgrade images (ala. the upgrade procededures on a sparc). I don't expect it to be flash'able from the ontap shell, but something short of having to contract/fly someone to the east coast for an upgrade would be nice...
..kg..