From owner-freebsd-small Fri Sep 3 13:37:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (ha1.rdc2.occa.home.com [24.2.8.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3F31156E9 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 13:36:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shansen@earthlink.net) Received: from p2 ([24.9.137.53]) by mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19990903203547.CEJF15959.mail.rdc2.occa.home.com@p2> for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 13:35:47 -0700 From: "Skip Hansen" To: small@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 13:39:20 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Odd idea Reply-To: shansen@earthlink.net 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> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Message-Id: <19990903203547.CEJF15959.mail.rdc2.occa.home.com@p2> Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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