From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 22 23:23:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA21844 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 23:23:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from counterintelligence.ml.org (mdean.vip.best.com [206.86.94.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA21810; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 23:23:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jamil@localhost) by counterintelligence.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA01385; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 23:18:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 23:18:29 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" To: Luigi Rizzo cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Diskless Workstation -- Problems needing to be addressed In-Reply-To: <199709230449.GAA18356@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk No only 10 megabit but I am going to get a linksys LNE100TX because I have a suspicion I may be able to hack it up and get it to work. There is some pci code in the netboot stuff (and also the boot rom sockets on other cards I've seen weren't the standard type I have the rom burner for) 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. > > Cheers > Luigi >