From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 23 2: 9:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2595737B400; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 02:09:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id LAA05350; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 11:09:38 +0100 (CET) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0NA7XJ19245; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 11:07:33 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from j) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 11:07:33 +0100 From: Joerg Wunsch To: Michael Smith Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Current & Etherboot" Message-ID: <20020123110733.A19226@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch Mail-Followup-To: Joerg Wunsch , Michael Smith , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <200201211747.g0LHlER71974@uriah.heep.sax.de> <200201222258.g0MMw3d02861@mass.dis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200201222258.g0MMw3d02861@mass.dis.org>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:58:03PM -0800 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Michael Smith wrote: > > But well, there are only two NICs that support PXE, aren't there? In > > particular, there's nothing cheap (i. e. <= USD 10) you could use in > > conjunction with an old junk ISA NIC people often have in their > > bit-bucket (i. e. with an NE2k clone or 3C509). > > You can't put an ISA NIC into a modern computer. Netbooting is (for me and many other people) most interesting to connect old junk computers to a fileserver that is usually much more modern. My most modern machine is the server itself, so i don't need netbooting for it (in fact, the PXE junk even annoys me since it cannot be turned off and only adds an additional boot delay). > But you can get PXE bootroms for most NICs, including those ISA fossils, > from Bootix. See Terrys reply, they are anything else but cheap; usually their price exceeds the total value of such a computer. > And since the specification is open, you could always simply fix > etherboot to provide the PXE interface and then you'd be back > in business. Except of the word `simply', this is the option i'd most agree with. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message