From owner-freebsd-config Sat Sep 4 8:55:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-config@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 57B9F14C19 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 08:55:21 -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 <19990904155511.KZDL15959.mail.rdc2.occa.home.com@p2> for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 08:55:11 -0700 From: "Skip Hansen" To: config@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 08:58:35 -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 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Message-Id: <19990904155511.KZDL15959.mail.rdc2.occa.home.com@p2> Sender: owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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