Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 15:11:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Murray Stokely <murray@cdrom.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Diskless Workstation -- Problems needing to be addressed Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970924151030.16735D-100000@pooh.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: <199709230449.GAA18356@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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SMC EtherPower II cards (10/100bt) have optional boot eproms for about $25. (the cards themselves are about $70). On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Luigi Rizzo wrote: % Just curious, did you manage to boot from an eprom with 100Mbit % cards ? Last time I tried this was only possible with 10Mbit cards, % except the obvious option (one 10-mbit card with the boot rom, one % 100-mbit which supports the real traffic). % % > easily setting up diskless workstations in the installation, because there % > are a different set of things that need to be done on the master server, % % what I have is a script which clones the root partition by making a % small set of changes and symlinks where needed. Murray Stokely
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