Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 21:36:40 +0200 From: "Jac Backus" <j.backus@bugworks.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: imp@village.org, mike@smith.net.au, config@freebsd.org, small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd idea Message-ID: <199909041937.VAA05904@THUNDERstorm.plex.nl> In-Reply-To: <199909031935.MAA00799@dingo.cdrom.com> References: Your message of "Fri, 03 Sep 1999 15:36:12 EDT." <199909031936.PAA20985@arran.research.att.com>
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Ha die Jos, Leuk dat PXE... Probeer er maar eens achter te komen hoe dit zou moeten werken zonder Intel software speeltjes:-(. groetjes, Jacques On 3 Sep 99, at 12:35, Mike Smith wrote: > > Didn't there use to be a loader that one could burn on eprom, stick the > > eprom in an ethernet card, and boot? I remember playing with it a few > > years ago, but it was probably back in the 2.1.5 days. > > These days you go out and buy a PXE-compliant boot ROM for your card, > or update your motherboard BIOS if you have onboard networking hardware. > > The i386 loader will be PXE 2.0 compliant when we're done with it; at > the moment I'm only working on the Alpha, but adding PXE support will > be fairly straightforward. > > You can buy third-party PXE-compliant bootroms for almost every card > ever manufactured. InCom (www.incom.de) support several hundred at > least, and they're only one vendor. > > You can read more about PXE at Intel's developer site > (developer.intel.com); I am actively looking for a contributor to help > with the PXE code. > > -- > \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith > \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message
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