From owner-freebsd-config Fri Sep 3 12:18:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1456314BE5; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:18:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00622; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:08:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199909031908.MAA00622@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Chris Dillon Cc: Mike Smith , Warner Losh , config@FreeBSD.ORG, small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd idea In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 03 Sep 1999 12:11:21 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 12:08:27 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 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. -- \\ 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