15 Sep
2000
15 Sep
'00
5:16 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? Of the three filers I have in production, the only time I've ever had to boot them from floppies was during initial install and for firmware upgrades. I haven't booted off floppy for an OnTap upgrade in a long time, in fact I can't remember ever doing it, though I may have with much earlier versions.
One of the things I love most about the filers is being able to do a live OS upgrade, with only a very few minutes of downtime for the reboot afterwards.
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Mike Sphar - Sr Systems Administrator - Engineering Support Services, BOFH,
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-----Original Message-----
From: Hal Siegel [mailto:hal.siegel@amd.com]
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 7:25 AM
To: Jeffrey Krueger
Cc: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Re: RFE: Network boot capavility in NetApp firmware
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Jeffrey Krueger wrote:
> RFE: Network boot capability in NetApp firmware
>
> WHAT:
> =====
> Add the ability to boot the OS from the network using a command such
> as "boot net" from the filer firmware "ok>" prompt.
I'll agree with you on that concept. I've also been trying to convince
Netapp that they need to change "boot from floppy" to "boot from
CD" ever since the boot disk became two disks. (heck, I still have
some floppies floating around somewhere from the days that the entire
OnTap OS fit on a 3.5" ...)
Perhaps we should be requesting both network *and* CD boot
capabilities.
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