From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 20 15:46:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29518 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:46:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from arg1.demon.co.uk (arg1.demon.co.uk [194.222.34.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29480 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:46:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from arg@arg1.demon.co.uk) Received: (from arg@localhost) by arg1.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA24227; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 23:00:56 GMT Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 23:00:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Andrew Gordon X-Sender: arg@server.arg.sj.co.uk To: Alfred Perlstein cc: fredy@elitenet.com.br, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it possible? What do I need? In-Reply-To: <00ad01bd3b04$d6faa3a0$0600a8c0@win95.local.sunyit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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