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Date:      Sat, 22 May 1999 14:23:56 +1000
From:      Andrew <mynet@uq.net.au>
To:        wjc@work.cleartech.com
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Diskless Booting of a Notebook?
Message-ID:  <3746315C.4993C871@uq.net.au>
References:  <199905212210.SAA04136@sunpal1.mit.edu>

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My guess is the next best solution would be to make a bootable floppy
disk that loads the kernel and the PCMCIA stuff and then mounts
a remote filesystem.

Cheers

Andrew

Bill Chiarchiaro wrote:

>   Is there a method for diskless booting of a notebook via a PCMCIA
> Ethernet card?
>
>   The hardware I have is:
>
>     HP OmniBook 4000C (486DX100, 24 MB RAM, floppy drive, etc.)
>     Linksys EC2T Combo PCMCIA EthernetCard
>
>   I have two other machines running FreeBSD 3.1, either of which could
> be the boot server.
>
>   Have I jumped too quickly the conclusion that netboot does *not*
> support PCMCIA ethernet cards?
>
> Thanks for any information,
>
> Bill Chiarchiaro
> wjc@work.cleartech.com
>
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