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From: Stephen Board <boards@toogoodoo.nosc.mil>
Date: Thu,  5 Jun 97 10:02:07 -0400
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Subject: Re: netboot in prom
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Does anyone have a list of all the network cards that can be used with netboot?

Thanks

Stephen


You wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> I'm not sure but as far as I know 3c509 supports several
> different types or ROM of different size. You just need to use
> another type of ROM chips. At least the BootWare boot ROM for
> 3c509 is of 32KB size.
> 
> -SB
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Stephen Board
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