Going there once is ok, when you only have to boot once on floppies. When trouble shooting a problem with NetApp support, and booting off a test OS repeatedly and having to return to my office where the computer is and 'ftp'ing core dumps and rebooting the same test OS To try another command from NetApp support and core dumping again and waiting four hours for wack to complete in a freezing machine room and ... Remote work means a little more than boot once off the floppy device. Of course, this may actually be partly a support issue.
At 4:27 PM -0500 4/23/99, tkaczma@gryf.net wrote:
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Jim Harm wrote:
Remote work is complicated mostly for me by the two floppy OS. It is a real pain to walk across the street to change floppies.
That's why you boot it off the net from the comfort of your desk or home.
Enlighten me, please. How do I boot off the net to an OS? You may mean to install the new OS onto the disk and reboot on that OS. But my experience was that support recommended a test OS that was not to be installed on the system by direction of the NetApp support, and had no back out assurance/experience, and in fact kept crashing so I am glad I didn't install it on the disks. If you mean the bootp protocol, I had not thought of that; is that a recommended/available boot procedure for NetApp boxes? Maybe I just didn't notice the OS download procedure for the bootp server and setup procedure for the bootp proctocol. Well, I am not sure I would want to set it up to boot that way all the time anyway.
And BTW; can Network Appliance make the filer capable of formating and downloading the OS onto its own floppy?
Why would you need this?
System administrators sometimes use different machines. One procedure for floppy download and copy to disk is easier than one for each of AIX, Solaris, Compaq, HP, ... It would be easier to explain to the on-site admin than to see which system they have access to and then try to remember the procedure for that particular OS/Machine.
Tom
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