Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 08:58:35 -0700 From: "Skip Hansen" <shansen@earthlink.net> To: config@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd idea Message-ID: <19990904155511.KZDL15959.mail.rdc2.occa.home.com@p2>
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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 ------- End of forwarded message ------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message
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