Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 23:00:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk> To: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu> Cc: fredy@elitenet.com.br, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it possible? What do I need? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980220225556.24214A-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <00ad01bd3b04$d6faa3a0$0600a8c0@win95.local.sunyit.edu>
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On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Alfred Perlstein wrote: [on the subject of discless FreeBSD systems] > i know how (theory)*and* and i don't know how (reality) :) The conventional way of doing this is documented in section 14.3 of the Handbook. > you will need to burn this boot floppy to a rom chip and put it on the > network cards. and if you don't want to to tear your hair out, i would > suggest a 100mbs setup so swapping over NFS doesn't make you scream.... The boot ROM image is not related to floppies; it has to be much smaller than a floppy to fit typical cards (in fact, it fits easily in a 16Kbyte EPROM). Swapping over 10Mbit/sec Ethernet works fine; in fact, there is no boot ROM support available for any 100Mbit cards at present. It is reasonably easy to set up; I'd be happy to help if you have problems. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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