From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 10 11:10:30 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA22547 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 11:10:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA22536 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 11:10:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id TAA27270; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 19:28:16 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199612101828.TAA27270@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: dosboot with netboot-like options ? To: bogusz@lib.amu.edu.pl (Bogusz Jelinski) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 19:28:16 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Bogusz Jelinski" at Dec 10, 96 08:05:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Has anyone booted FBSD with the Linux netboot? The difference is > that it uses packet driver shipped by the card vendor, so nearly all cards > are supported. The drawback is you can't run it from DO$ prompt, only > EPROM or rawritten floppy is supported. > I've been thru a difficult time and don't have time to check it up. I'll look into this but it sounds strange that both the packet driver and the netboot code fit into the same eprom. Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________