Wouldn't it be cool if someone took an eeprom burner and made a micro distribution and put it on an on-board ethernet controller. Basically, the ethernet controller would have about 1-15MB flash memory on which a micro distribution lived. Of course, you could think this one to death... "If we have a useful OS on the flash memory on the ethernet controller, what good it the system itself?" Can you imagine a massive disk array hanging off a single eepro100b or the like? :-) Peter Lukas On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Timothy Wilson wrote: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Chad C. Walstrom wrote: > > > If it only manages hardware, not a biggie. If it tries to manage > > anything else, you'll likely have problems. Just make sure he doesn't > > try to reboot the machine remotely unless you can send the > > CTRL-ALT-DEL signal to the host OS. > > It supports "virtual floppies" which apparently allow you to boot the server > from a floppy disk from any client. Yes, it does allow a remote reboot in > the event of a completely inaccessible box. > > Personally, it doesn't seem worth the $400 for something I can do with > ssh. Heck, I can set up port forwarding and access Webmin remotely in about > 5 seconds. > > -Tim > > -- > Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: > Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.k12.mn.us/ | http://www.zope.org/ > W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org/ > wilson at visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >