Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 02:46:57 +0100 (MET) From: Martin Dieringer <dieringe@physik.fu-berlin.de> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netboot via pccard? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10003140228120.23568-100000@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <200003060927.CAA57771@harmony.village.org>
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On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <Pine.SGI.4.21.0003060149240.5424-100000@Komma.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE> Martin Dieringer writes: > : is it possible to boot via network with a pccard? > > Not from scratch. At last I've not seen a laptop with this feature, > but I have seen some embedded systems that could do this. > > : Or at least to mount directories like /usr by nfs? > : The pccards are probed AFTER mounting filesystems, can this be changed? > : I have a 3com 589D and 4.0-CURRENT. > > Well, you'd have to try hard to do this. Enough hacking on /etc/rc > could likely make this work. pccardd can run after / has been mounted > r/w (maybe even while it is still r/o). It doesn't need anything in > /usr. So if you have a local /, then you might be able to do that. yes, hacking in rc was not that difficult. I just moved rc.conf, pccard and network to the top, and moved pccardd and ..c from /usr/sbin to /sbin. had to take out file logging for pccardd. now I can mount everything except / via net. But all this makes no sense if it doesn't work for / . can it possibly work to mount / locally first, then mount it via the net after the pccard has been probed? is there a netboot program that runs under freebsd? I think I can't get the dos version to find the card. > NEWCARD will likely change this... so I wait for this? how long would that be? martin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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