From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 27 22:11:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from digital.csudsu.com (digital.csudsu.com [209.249.57.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B43637B71B for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:11:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stefan@csudsu.com) Received: by digital.csudsu.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8961122E01; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:13:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by digital.csudsu.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A4D11F001; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:13:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:13:46 -0800 (PST) From: Stefan Molnar To: Wes Peters Cc: Chris Shenton , Subject: Re: ThinkNIC booting FreeBSD? [WAS: Re: Silent FreeBSD] In-Reply-To: <3A9C9834.6D95C4C2@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just turn on network boot in the bios, and setup the server for a PXE Client. No hardware to add. On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Wes Peters wrote: > 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