Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:05:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: brian@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cheap ethernet with bootp support Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9906151104440.2596-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990611195446.14779.rocketmail@web1002.mail.yahoo.com>
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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
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