From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 6 13:53:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA02410 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 13:53:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA02365 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 13:52:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA17522; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 22:51:32 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA04873; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 22:51:32 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id WAA05259; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 22:36:43 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 22:36:43 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: SimsS@IBM.Net Cc: Hackers@freebsd.org (Hackers) Subject: Re: ed0 boot [p]roms References: <199701061943.TAA84776@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701061943.TAA84776@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net>; from Steve Sims on Jan 6, 1997 14:40:42 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Steve Sims wrote: > 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. cd /sys/i386/boot/netboot vi Makefile # there are a few options make (&& find someone to burn you the EPROM) My scratchbox can do netbooting fine, with a WD8003 card. There's also a handbook section about diskless booting, i think it also covers the server side. It was fairly painless for me to get the environment running from that description. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)