From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 14 14:42:41 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20037 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 14:42:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20032 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 14:42:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA16244; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 14:35:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdi16239; Sun Feb 14 22:35:32 1999 Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 14:35:27 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Mike Smith cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oskit and 3.0? In-Reply-To: <199902142149.NAA05644@dingo.cdrom.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 we netboot elf kernels and aout kernels here.. check with doug ambrisko (ambrisko@whistle.com) for his netbooting stuff. julian On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message