Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 11:02:37 -0400 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Christoph Kukulies) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: diskless 100 Mbit - IntelEtherexpress - Q Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970926110236.00abfa18@etinc.com>
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At 02:43 PM 9/26/97 +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> Would it be possible with the present status of network drivers/netboot >> to build a diskless 100 MBit (Fast Ethernet) setup of workstations? >> >> Would the Intel Etherexpress card be appropriate HW? I see an empty >> socket on the board but it's unclear to me whether this is for an >> EPROM. > >it could be for an eprom but we don't have eprom support for 100 >mbit cards anyways. > >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. > >as an alternative you can boot off a 10mbit/s "ed"-like card and use an >additional card for 100 mbit/s Is this in the 2.2 release? Is there a doc? Dennis
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