Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 12:08:27 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, config@FreeBSD.ORG, small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd idea Message-ID: <199909031908.MAA00622@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Sep 1999 12:11:21 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909031204140.68410-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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> On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > > 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. > > Will/could that support configuration via DHCP? Yes; initially it will do only bootp, but DHCP is assumed to be coming. -- \\ 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-small" in the body of the message
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