Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 14:58:03 -0800 From: Michael Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Current & Etherboot" Message-ID: <200201222258.g0MMw3d02861@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jan 2002 18:47:14 %2B0100." <200201211747.g0LHlER71974@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > > > Most people I know of that netboot boxes on Intel platforms now use > > PXE. > > But well, there are only two NICs that support PXE, aren't there? In > particular, there's nothing cheap (i. e. <= USD 10) you could use in > conjunction with an old junk ISA NIC people often have in their > bit-bucket (i. e. with an NE2k clone or 3C509). You can't put an ISA NIC into a modern computer. But you can get PXE bootroms for most NICs, including those ISA fossils, from Bootix. And since the specification is open, you could always simply fix etherboot to provide the PXE interface and then you'd be back in business. -- Go where you may, search where you will, roam throughout all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival... - Frederic Douglass, Independence Day Address, 1852 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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