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From: Murray Stokely <murray@cdrom.com>
To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: Diskless Workstation -- Problems needing to be addressed
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SMC EtherPower II cards (10/100bt) have optional boot eproms for about
$25.  (the cards themselves are about $70).

On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
% Just curious, did you manage to boot from an eprom with 100Mbit
% cards ? Last time I tried this was only possible with 10Mbit cards,
% except the obvious option (one 10-mbit card with the boot rom, one
% 100-mbit which supports the real traffic).
% 
% > easily setting up diskless workstations in the installation, because there
% > are a different set of things that need to be done on the master server,
% 
% what I have is a script which clones the root partition by making a
% small set of changes and symlinks where needed.

Murray Stokely