Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 22:36:43 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: SimsS@IBM.Net Cc: Hackers@freebsd.org (Hackers) Subject: Re: ed0 boot [p]roms Message-ID: <Mutt.19970106223643.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701061943.TAA84776@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net>; from Steve Sims on Jan 6, 1997 14:40:42 -0500 References: <199701061943.TAA84776@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net>
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As Steve Sims wrote: > I figure that with all these el-cheapo NE-2000 clones floating around, > somebody ought to have an idea on how to burn or where to buy an appropriate > bootp/tftp-able ROM for 'em. cd /sys/i386/boot/netboot vi Makefile # there are a few options make (&& find someone to burn you the EPROM) My scratchbox can do netbooting fine, with a WD8003 card. There's also a handbook section about diskless booting, i think it also covers the server side. It was fairly painless for me to get the environment running from that description. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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