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Date:      Tue, 7 Jan 1997 11:04:04 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        SimsS@IBM.Net
Cc:        Hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ed0 boot [p]roms
Message-ID:  <199701070034.LAA06069@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199701061943.TAA84776@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> from Steve Sims at "Jan 6, 97 02:40:42 pm"

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Steve Sims stands accused of saying:
> 
> I haven't done diskless in years, since we ran a secure net off of a Novell
> server.  That was painless, but the cards (with ROMs) ran about $300 back
> then.
> 
> 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.

Buy your el-cheapo NE2000-with-bootrom-socket, go to /sys/i386/boot/netboot,
edit the Makefile to suit and build yourself an image.  Then get someone
to make as many copies of the bootrom as you need.

> ...sjs..

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