From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 21 21:56:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uq.net.au (fox.uq.net.au [203.101.255.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2284414C18 for ; Fri, 21 May 1999 21:56:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mynet@uq.net.au) Received: from uq.net.au (dyn-8-73.dialin.uq.net.au [203.100.8.73]) by uq.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA27301; Sat, 22 May 1999 14:56:36 +1000 (GMT+1000) Message-ID: <3746315C.4993C871@uq.net.au> Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 14:23:56 +1000 From: Andrew X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wjc@work.cleartech.com Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Diskless Booting of a Notebook? References: <199905212210.SAA04136@sunpal1.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My guess is the next best solution would be to make a bootable floppy disk that loads the kernel and the PCMCIA stuff and then mounts a remote filesystem. Cheers Andrew Bill Chiarchiaro wrote: > Is there a method for diskless booting of a notebook via a PCMCIA > Ethernet card? > > The hardware I have is: > > HP OmniBook 4000C (486DX100, 24 MB RAM, floppy drive, etc.) > Linksys EC2T Combo PCMCIA EthernetCard > > I have two other machines running FreeBSD 3.1, either of which could > be the boot server. > > Have I jumped too quickly the conclusion that netboot does *not* > support PCMCIA ethernet cards? > > Thanks for any information, > > Bill Chiarchiaro > wjc@work.cleartech.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message