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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: diskless 100 Mbit - IntelEtherexpress - Q
To: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Christoph Kukulies)
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 14:43:46 +0200 (MET DST)
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> Would it be possible with the present status of network drivers/netboot
> to build a diskless 100 MBit (Fast Ethernet) setup of workstations?
> 
> Would the Intel Etherexpress card be appropriate HW? I see an empty
> socket on the board but it's unclear to me whether this is for an 
> EPROM. 

it could be for an eprom but we don't have eprom support for 100
mbit cards anyways.

the way I do it now is to use a boot floppy with a kernel on it and the
diskless stuff that Tor Egge wrote and recently (march-april ?) was
committed.

as an alternative you can boot off a 10mbit/s "ed"-like card and use an
additional card for 100 mbit/s

	Luigi