From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 26 03:50:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA09822 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 03:50:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA09805 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 03:50:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hohmuth@olymp.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id MAA19054; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 12:49:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from hohmuth@olymp.sax.de) Received: (from hohmuth@localhost) by olymp.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA02057; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 12:44:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from hohmuth) From: Michael Hohmuth To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: ambrisko@whistle.com (Doug Ambrisko), tege@matematik.su.se, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netboot References: <199808260044.CAA02239@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.105) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 26 Aug 1998 12:44:58 +0200 In-Reply-To: Luigi Rizzo's message of Wed, 26 Aug 1998 02:44:47 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <87hfz010ph.fsf@olymp.sax.de> Lines: 27 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Luigi Rizzo writes: > a few questions to those who have looked at this code: > 1) which cards does etherboot support ? The same cards that Netboot also supports, plus the Intel EtherExpress card. > 2) how hard would it be to make etherboot compilable under FreeBSD ? You would have to duplicate some of Linux's /usr/include/linux header files. > 3) what "nice features" are you referring to except the 100Mbit > support ? about last 1yr ago we managed to make netboot get all > of its data from bootpd without having the annoying TFTP > configuration file -- that was in my opinion a significant > improvement. I don't know what Doug referred to here, but what do you have against TFTP? Michael -- hohmuth@innocent.com, hohmuth@sax.de http://www.sax.de/~hohmuth/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message