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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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