From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 15 11: 7: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B383151E0 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:07:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA23850; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:05:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:05:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: brian@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cheap ethernet with bootp support In-Reply-To: <19990611195446.14779.rocketmail@web1002.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Brian McGroarty wrote: > I'd like to set up a couple completely diskless 486 X stations. > Not so much as a boot floppy. > > 1) Am I correct in assuming I need a network card which > explicitly supports bootp to do this? And a EEPROM burner/flash programmer to program the boot chip on the card. I suggest checking out the etherboot port (I think) that has support for several cards. > 2) I can find any number of card & boot ROM combinations which > support MS and Novell booting, but I haven't spotted any ISA > cards offering the cabability. I've been looking at a variety of > inexpensive NE2000 clones. Brand suggetions/recommendations? Both? Can you cram all that on the small boot ROM? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message