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Date:      Fri, 03 Sep 1999 12:08:27 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, config@FreeBSD.ORG, small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Odd idea 
Message-ID:  <199909031908.MAA00622@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Sep 1999 12:11:21 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909031204140.68410-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> 

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> On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > I'm working on fixing the network stack in the loader at the moment.  
> > Once that's done, you should be able to do just that (or use NFS, for 
> > that matter).  There's some glue missing (drivers for PC network 
> > cards), but that'll be relatively easy by comparison.
> 
> Will/could that support configuration via DHCP?

Yes; initially it will do only bootp, but DHCP is assumed to be coming.

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\\  The mind's the standard       \\  Mike Smith
\\  of the man.                   \\  msmith@freebsd.org
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