Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 04:25:37 +0200 From: System Daemon <daemon@bee.cs.kiev.ua> Message-ID: <199512060225.EAA06686@bee.cs.kiev.ua>
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Steve Passe (smp@csn.net) wrote: > I haven't looked at this program lately, but it used to be broken for NE2000 > support. The problem was that the probe for the wd card prevented the ne probe > from occuring. The solution is to remove wd and 3com support from the boot > program. (although I would expect you to get a "card not found" error from > this). Another problem I saw someone have once was their believing that > netboot.com was a standalone (ie, 'bootable') program. It must be on a DOS > SYS diskette and either manually invoked from the DOS command line or invoked > from your autoexec.bat file. actually, if you hate the idea of having DOS to boot Unix (as I do), you can fetch ftp://ftp.cs.kiev.ua/csrt/unix/dkboot*, put my boot sector onto that same floppy, and copy ??????.com file as loader.com onto it. Commit team: please add this to /usr/mdec if you wish. btw, the bootpd 2.4 requires patch to boot FreeBSD boxes if arp entry already exists (it does system("arp -s host addr"), it should do a system("arp -d host") prior to that or ignore error from arp, better the former since the arp entry can be incomplete). Any chances of adding SIOCSARP ioctl? (I see <net/if_arp.h>, but this is non-standard (is SVR4 standard??) -- "Yes means No and No means Yes. Delete all files [Y]? " -- BOFH
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