From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 27 22: 7:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B497337B718 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:07:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14XzwS-0000Fo-00; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 23:18:28 -0700 Message-ID: <3A9C9834.6D95C4C2@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 23:18:28 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan Molnar Cc: Chris Shenton , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ThinkNIC booting FreeBSD? [WAS: Re: Silent FreeBSD] References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stefan Molnar wrote: > > Wes, you do not even need the flash to netboot, since it supports > PXE. And it boots very nicely Oh, cool. Is the boot rom on the machine, or is there a socket there somewhere? Where can I get a ROM image? Netbooting FreeBSD on our several NICs at work would probably make them much faster than running leeenoooks off the CD-ROM. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message