From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 24 18:59:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA15813 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 18:59:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from counterintelligence.ml.org (mdean.vip.best.com [206.86.94.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA15801; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 18:59:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jamil@localhost) by counterintelligence.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA00759; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 18:56:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 18:56:36 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" To: Murray Stokely cc: Luigi Rizzo , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Diskless Workstation -- Problems needing to be addressed In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Are these known to boot freebsd using bootp and tftp (i.e. have you tried it yourself or a close friend). I ask because most cards can do this just not with freebsd off the shelf. On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Murray Stokely wrote: > 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 > >