Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 12:56:18 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any newer code for netbooting PC's? Message-ID: <199809091956.MAA00929@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Sep 1998 15:39:28 EDT." <v04011702b21c883d195f@[128.113.24.47]>
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> I vaguely remember a few articles go by in the past few months which > had to do with improved support for netbooting. I thought I saved > the messages away, but I can't find them now even though I've tried > several likely searches of the mailing-list archives. > > I *think* they had to do with the situation where you have boot-rom's > on a PC, and then they can connect to some server to download the > entire system image to disk (at least, that's what I am interested > in). Anyone remember any work going on in that area? > > The goal here is to have a lab of PC's, and let users boot into > different operating systems (if they don't mind waiting a bit > for the new system image to be built), so it's not the same thing > as simple boot loaders like booteasy, PowerBoot, or System Commander. For now, go look at www.incom.de. The "Wired for Management Baseline" sponsored by Intel also covers what you're referring to, but the critical interfaces involved are currently undergoing massive renovation, so don't expect anything earthshattering right now. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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