From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 14 13:53:29 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA14680 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:53:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles146.castles.com [208.214.165.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14675 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:53:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA05644 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:49:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902142149.NAA05644@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oskit and 3.0? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:39:29 +0100." <199902142139.WAA28840@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:49:04 -0800 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id NAA14676 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Amancio Hasty wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > > [...] > > BTW: netboot is really cool: > > http://www.cs.utah.edu/projects/flexmach/oskit/html/boot-floppy/ > > Yes, indeed, cool... I still have to use the old bootloader > and aout kernels, because there's no netboot support in the new > bootloader. > I think it's a shame that 3.1-Release won't be able to support > netbooting (at least not without major efforts), like 2.x did. > Netbooting is quite an important feature, IMO. > > Regards > Oliver > > PS: Sorry for whining... :-) There's work underway at the moment to address this; it should be an easy after-release bolt-on. Testers will, of course, be required. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message