Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:41:22 +0200 From: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au Subject: Re: Any newer code for netbooting PC's? Message-ID: <19980910194122.37514@deepo.prosa.dk> In-Reply-To: <v04011702b21c883d195f@[128.113.24.47]>; from Garance A Drosihn on Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 03:39:28PM -0400 References: <v04011702b21c883d195f@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn writes: > I vaguely remember a few articles go by in the past few months which > had to do with improved support for netbooting. I thought I saved > the messages away, but I can't find them now even though I've tried > several likely searches of the mailing-list archives. > > I *think* they had to do with the situation where you have boot-rom's > on a PC, and then they can connect to some server to download the > entire system image to disk (at least, that's what I am interested > in). Anyone remember any work going on in that area? Imagecast.com. Otherwise, you want what two University of Geneva students have done (with the eeprom company -- InCom -- mentioned by Mike Smith): http://cuiwww.unige.ch/info/pc/remote-boot/howto.html This is _very_ good work. I will be using it with FreeBSD here on course + prod. machines multibooting NT/95/FreeBSD. -- -[ Philippe Regnauld / sysadmin / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk / +55.4N +11.3E ]- The Internet is busy. Please try again later. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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