Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 15:35:24 -0800 (PST) From: David Lowe <dlowe@sirius.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diskless operation / netbooting prob Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95q.970319153134.15139B-100000@ds9> In-Reply-To: <199703190448.FAA01847@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Hello again - In this case, can anyone tell me if any 100megabit PCI cards are supported (and, preferably, known to work ;)? Thanks, David Lowe On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > no wonder it does not work, nb8390 only supports wd8xxx/ne2000 type of > boards and your SMC 10/100 is surely not one of these. The thing which > comes closer to netboot is to build a boot floppy with a kernel (and a > loader, you have the choice between the FreeBSD loader and fbsdboot) > and use the kernel bootp stuff by Tor Egge (I have a copy, I also > posted it some time ago). It works fine here, although booting from a > floppy is ssssslllllooooowwwww .... this can be overcome if you happen > to have a HD and can load the kernel (and just that) from the HD. > > Luigi > -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- > Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione > email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa > tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) > fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ > _____________________________|______________________________________ >
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