Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 13:39:20 -0700 From: "Skip Hansen" <shansen@earthlink.net> To: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd idea Message-ID: <19990903203547.CEJF15959.mail.rdc2.occa.home.com@p2> In-Reply-To: <199909031941.NAA46559@harmony.village.org> References: Your message of "Fri, 03 Sep 1999 15:36:12 EDT." <199909031936.PAA20985@arran.research.att.com>
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You can make a floppy image of the Etherboot code that runs from a floppy. That's the way they test images to avoid blowing lots of EPROMS while tweaking the configuration. > In message <199909031936.PAA20985@arran.research.att.com> John Ioannidis writes: > : Didn't there use to be a loader that one could burn on eprom, stick the : > eprom in an ethernet card, and boot? I remember playing with it a few : years > ago, but it was probably back in the 2.1.5 days. > > Yes, but I wanted to do this from floppy to speed up the installation > process. I wanted to do this once rather than many times. Also, my > ethernet cards don't have bootroms. > > Warner > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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