Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 23:16:43 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org> To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: diskless 100 Mbit - IntelEtherexpress - Q Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970927231521.1582A-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970926110236.00abfa18@etinc.com>
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> >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. The problem with solution (which I have used with linux) is 1) the disk wears out rather quickly 2) if you write protect it then it is not possible to remotely alter the kernel and reboot 3) the floppy drive becomes pretty much useless
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