From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 9 09:15:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA18716 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 09:15:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.188]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA18701 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 09:15:51 -0700 (PDT) From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu Received: from kongur (kongur.cs.ucdavis.edu) by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.6) id AA22764; Tue, 9 Jul 96 09:15:46 PDT Received: by kongur (SMI-8.6/UCDCS.SECLAB.Solaris2-2.0) id JAA08760; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 09:16:27 -0700 Message-Id: <199607091616.JAA08760@kongur> Subject: Re: Root filesystem on NFS, Linux style ??? To: mark@plato.ucsalf.ac.uk (Mark Powell) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 09:16:26 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Mark Powell" at Jul 9, 96 12:04:45 pm X-Pgp-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >>our DOS menu system. We currently do it with Linux. However, I'd prefer to > >>do it with FreeBSD, for obvious reasons. NETNOOT.COM does not work > >>if there is already a network driver loaded, as there is in our case. > >>Is there anything afoot allow the kernel to be configured with some of > >>the netboot.com functionality into the kernel? > > > >I experienced that QEMM screws up when running NETBOOT, so I simply > >created a boot menu under MS-DOS 6.22 and let people choose it at > >boot time - no network driver conflicts, no memory manager conflicts. > > Yeah, but I currently do this with Linux. The user's can simply select an > option from our PC LAN menu system. FreeBSD can't do this, AFAIK. If the network drivers are Novell, when the user wants an X-terminal, you could unload them (with the /U switch) and then run netboot.com. Maybe something like this would work? -- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)