Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 14:43:46 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Christoph Kukulies) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: diskless 100 Mbit - IntelEtherexpress - Q Message-ID: <199709261243.OAA00131@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199709261340.PAA06145@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Sep 26, 97 03:39:50 pm
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> Would it be possible with the present status of network drivers/netboot > to build a diskless 100 MBit (Fast Ethernet) setup of workstations? > > Would the Intel Etherexpress card be appropriate HW? I see an empty > socket on the board but it's unclear to me whether this is for an > EPROM. it could be for an eprom but we don't have eprom support for 100 mbit cards anyways. the way I do it now is to use a boot floppy with a kernel on it and the diskless stuff that Tor Egge wrote and recently (march-april ?) was committed. as an alternative you can boot off a 10mbit/s "ed"-like card and use an additional card for 100 mbit/s Luigi
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