Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 09:16:26 -0700 (PDT) From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu To: mark@plato.ucsalf.ac.uk (Mark Powell) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root filesystem on NFS, Linux style ??? Message-ID: <199607091616.JAA08760@kongur> In-Reply-To: <m0udab4-00036zC@viking.ucsalf.ac.uk> from "Mark Powell" at Jul 9, 96 12:04:45 pm
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> >>our DOS menu system. We currently do it with Linux. However, I'd prefer to > >>do it with FreeBSD, for obvious reasons. NETNOOT.COM does not work > >>if there is already a network driver loaded, as there is in our case. > >>Is there anything afoot allow the kernel to be configured with some of > >>the netboot.com functionality into the kernel? > > > >I experienced that QEMM screws up when running NETBOOT, so I simply > >created a boot menu under MS-DOS 6.22 and let people choose it at > >boot time - no network driver conflicts, no memory manager conflicts. > > Yeah, but I currently do this with Linux. The user's can simply select an > option from our PC LAN menu system. FreeBSD can't do this, AFAIK. If the network drivers are Novell, when the user wants an X-terminal, you could unload them (with the /U switch) and then run netboot.com. Maybe something like this would work? -- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)
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