Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 16:06:17 -0400 From: Mathew Kanner <mat@cs.mcgill.ca> To: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> Cc: Mathew Kanner <mat@cs.mcgill.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Diskless Message-ID: <20000530160617.D28012@cs.mcgill.ca> In-Reply-To: Gabriel Ambuehl's message [Re[2]: FreeBSD Diskless] as of Tue, May 30, 2000 at 10:00:14PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0005301413330.28401-100000@psasolar.private.psa.pencom.com> <14416104737.20000530212228@buz.ch> <20000530154947.C28012@cs.mcgill.ca> <18218370505.20000530220014@buz.ch>
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On May 30, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > > You can get PXE boot proms for quite a few cards. > > "www.bootix.com" seems to make quite a few. The only problem is that > > they proms cost an arm and a leg. The PXE proms from 3com are only > > about $17can, which isn't that bad. > > BootManageŽ PXE Prom for Ethernet > Part Number: 90521-xxx* > Unit Price/Unit Price/Unit Price/Unit > 1 31,00 DM 15,85 EUR 16.75 US $ > > I Wouldn't call that very expensive... (especially as local store > wanted to have 25 SFr. for the 3Com ones as well) OK, it's the same price as a > whole Realtek NIC would cost but who cares? If I get such a remote boot > thingy up, I'd never again have to do the same updates on different > machines. That would be even worth 200$/machine, IMHO. To be honest, I haven't visited them for a while. I just remeber that you needed a license to go along with the prom and the licenses were 2-3x the price of the rom itself. --Mat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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