From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 6 16:34:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA15667 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 16:34:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA15662 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 16:34:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id LAA06069; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 11:04:05 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199701070034.LAA06069@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: ed0 boot [p]roms In-Reply-To: <199701061943.TAA84776@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> from Steve Sims at "Jan 6, 97 02:40:42 pm" To: SimsS@IBM.Net Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 11:04:04 +1030 (CST) Cc: Hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[