Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 23:23:59 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oskit and 3.0? Message-ID: <199902142223.XAA29251@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Mike Smith wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > > Amancio Hasty wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > > > [...] > > > BTW: netboot is really cool: > > > http://www.cs.utah.edu/projects/flexmach/oskit/html/boot-floppy/ > > > > Yes, indeed, cool... I still have to use the old bootloader > > and aout kernels, because there's no netboot support in the new > > bootloader. > > I think it's a shame that 3.1-Release won't be able to support > > netbooting (at least not without major efforts), like 2.x did. > > Netbooting is quite an important feature, IMO. > > There's work underway at the moment to address this; it should be an > easy after-release bolt-on. I'm really happy to hear that. :) At the moment I have to use that self-hacked version of rawboot, which works with aout kernels only, and doesn't support /kernel.config... Setting up PnP cards is a PITA that way. > > Testers will, of course, be required. Here's one tester for you. As soon as /boot/loader is able to pull a kernel and its config through an EtherExpress/100 I'll buy you a beer. :-) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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