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From: "Steve Sims" <SimsS@IBM.Net>
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Subject: ed0 boot [p]roms
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 14:40:42 -0500
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Who's the resident expert on boot ROMs for ed devices?  I'm thinking about
building a diskless / floppy-less machine and have no earthly idea how to
proceed.

I haven't done diskless in years, since we ran a secure net off of a Novell
server.  That was painless, but the cards (with ROMs) ran about $300 back
then.

I figure that with all these el-cheapo NE-2000 clones floating around,
somebody ought to have an idea on how to burn or where to buy an appropriate
bootp/tftp-able ROM for 'em.

Any takers?

...sjs..