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To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>,
        kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Christoph Kukulies)
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Subject: Re: diskless 100 Mbit - IntelEtherexpress - Q
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At 02:43 PM 9/26/97 +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>> Would it be possible with the present status of network drivers/netboot
>> to build a diskless 100 MBit (Fast Ethernet) setup of workstations?
>> 
>> Would the Intel Etherexpress card be appropriate HW? I see an empty
>> socket on the board but it's unclear to me whether this is for an 
>> EPROM. 
>
>it could be for an eprom but we don't have eprom support for 100
>mbit cards anyways.
>
>the way I do it now is to use a boot floppy with a kernel on it and the
>diskless stuff that Tor Egge wrote and recently (march-april ?) was
>committed.
>
>as an alternative you can boot off a 10mbit/s "ed"-like card and use an
>additional card for 100 mbit/s

Is this in the 2.2 release? Is there a doc?

Dennis