From owner-freebsd-config Thu Sep 2 23:48:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles547.castles.com [208.214.165.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E666114DC3; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 23:48:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA00492; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 23:41:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199909030641.XAA00492@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Warner Losh Cc: config@freebsd.org, small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd idea In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 03 Sep 1999 00:44:55 MDT." <199909030644.AAA20938@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 23:41:44 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Has anybody put together a tftp boot floopy? I was thinking that if I > had a supported ethernet card, then I could boot the install ramdisk > kernel off a server at ethernet speeds rather than floppy speeds. I'm working on fixing the network stack in the loader at the moment. Once that's done, you should be able to do just that (or use NFS, for that matter). There's some glue missing (drivers for PC network cards), but that'll be relatively easy by comparison. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message