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Date:      Fri, 09 Jan 2004 22:24:09 +0100
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x
Message-ID:  <xzpfzeoke86.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20040109211926.GR25474@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> (Peter Jeremy's message of "Sat, 10 Jan 2004 08:19:26 %2B1100")
References:  <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> <20040108075059.GK53429@silverwraith.com> <20040108075811.GJ48603@over-yonder.net> <20040108095207.GA52153@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <20040109211926.GR25474@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> writes:
> Keep in mind that older systems probably won't boot over the network
> without a netboot ROM or similar.  The netboot ROM images are (or
> were) in the distribution but aren't much use without an EPROM
> burner.

I believe that in most cases you can dd the ROM image to a floppy and
boot from it.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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