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Date:      Thu, 02 Sep 1999 23:41:44 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        config@freebsd.org, small@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Odd idea 
Message-ID:  <199909030641.XAA00492@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Sep 1999 00:44:55 MDT." <199909030644.AAA20938@harmony.village.org> 

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> 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




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