From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 10 3:45:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from nets5.rz.rwth-aachen.de (nets5.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 656D814D32 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 03:45:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by nets5.rz.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1/8) with ESMTP id MAA18524 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 12:45:37 +0100 (MET) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.30.2]) by campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1/3) with ESMTP id MAA09378 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 12:45:37 +0100 (MET) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.3/8.6.9) id MAA07130 for hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 12:45:41 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 12:45:41 +0100 (CET) From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199912101145.MAA07130@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: netnoot - INT 18 device Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I got a new machine (500 MHz PIII) with a 12 GB disk (nothing nowadays though :-). There was already NT 4.0 installed and a 3.9 GB unitialized partition left. I booted the 3.3 CD, chose Custom and tried to create a FreeBSD partition. 13200 blocks were left. I tried both, half of it and the whole left partition but afterwards in the label editor there was no entry I could define my filesystems on. Weird. Maybe a problem with large disks? Maybe that the FreeBSD partition has to be in the first 2 GB of a disk? Maybe because I could not create FreeBSD slices? Maybe I should repartition the whole disk, install FreeBSD and then reinstall NT . Sigh. To avoid all this the following idea came to me: while studying the BIOS boot options I saw ATAPI IDE, FD, and Int 18 device. Does FreeBSD support Int 18 Device? I assume this could be something like netboot, couldn't it? OTOH, the PCI 100 MBit ethernet card has a EPROM socket on it... With a 100MBit network, diskless could become interesting and I could try to netboot this machine. Any suggestions? -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message