Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 08:58:36 -0700 From: "Skip Hansen" <shansen@earthlink.net> To: config@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd idea Message-ID: <19990904155500.KZCQ15959.mail.rdc2.occa.home.com@p2>
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> Has anybody put together a tftp boot floopy? I was thinking that if I > had a supported ethernet card, then I could boot the install ramdisk > kernel off a server at ethernet speeds rather than floppy speeds. > > Warner Might as well go all the way and lose the floppy altogether. I boot my PicoBSD firewall box over the network using an EPROM created from the Etherboot port. The only problem is that the port is based on an older version of Etherboot that's hard to find. Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> was very helpful in providing the original tarball. I made a couple of minor modifications to the PicoBSD scripts to include the stuff normally on the floppy in the MFS image and to remove the references to the floppy after boot time and that was it. Skip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message ------- End of forwarded message ------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message
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