From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 5 00:22:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA00305 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 00:22:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA00292 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 00:22:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA17038 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 09:22:48 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA23732; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 08:56:57 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970605085657.GY12396@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 08:56:57 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netboot in prom References: <199706041707.KAA09050@tweetie-bird.cs.washington.edu> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199706041707.KAA09050@tweetie-bird.cs.washington.edu>; from mef@cs.washington.edu on Jun 4, 1997 10:07:08 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As mef@cs.washington.edu wrote: > Does anyone use the netboot program in a prom on an ethernet card? Yep. What's the problem? The only thing i didn't get to work was booting off a 3C509 card, since it only provides for 8 KB of ROM, which is too few for netboot. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)