From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Mar 13 17:48:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from axp5.physik.fu-berlin.de (axp5.physik.fu-berlin.de [160.45.34.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4195237BE46 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:47:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dieringe@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de) Received: from sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de [160.45.34.162]) by axp5.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAA06700; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 02:46:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (dieringe@localhost) by sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAA16125; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 02:46:57 +0100 (MET) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 02:46:57 +0100 (MET) From: Martin Dieringer To: Warner Losh Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netboot via pccard? In-Reply-To: <200003060927.CAA57771@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message 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