Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 11:07:33 +0100 From: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: Michael Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Current & Etherboot" Message-ID: <20020123110733.A19226@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <200201222258.g0MMw3d02861@mass.dis.org>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:58:03PM -0800 References: <200201211747.g0LHlER71974@uriah.heep.sax.de> <200201222258.g0MMw3d02861@mass.dis.org>
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As Michael Smith wrote: > > 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. Netbooting is (for me and many other people) most interesting to connect old junk computers to a fileserver that is usually much more modern. My most modern machine is the server itself, so i don't need netbooting for it (in fact, the PXE junk even annoys me since it cannot be turned off and only adds an additional boot delay). > But you can get PXE bootroms for most NICs, including those ISA fossils, > from Bootix. See Terrys reply, they are anything else but cheap; usually their price exceeds the total value of such a computer. > 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. Except of the word `simply', this is the option i'd most agree with. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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