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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:09:33 -0400
From: Mathew KANNER <mat@cs.mcgill.ca>
To: Paul Jansen <vlaero@yahoo.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Network booting?
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On Aug 10, Paul Jansen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was reading this article about creating a diskless
> X-terminal.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskless-x/article.html
> 
> 
> This part specifically:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskless-x/x33.html
> 
> talks about DOS executable files which you can run to
> then have the system boot off the network. It only
> talks about support for two cards/chipsets.  Can I do
> this somehow with other cards/chipsets?
> 
> Is it possible to put the boot-rom code that a vendor
> supplies onto a floppy and boot it from there instead?
> 
> Any help on this issue appreciated.


	Not that the manual is out of date but PXE is the prefered way
of doing net-booting.  If you can't use PXE, you should look at
etherboot in the ports, is covers a broader card selection but it
isn't easy. 

	--Mat

> 
> Thanks,
> Paul
> 
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