From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 10 10:38:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA12654 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:38:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.ftf.dk (mail.ftf.dk [129.142.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12635 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:38:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk) Received: from mail.prosa.dk ([192.168.100.254]) by mail.ftf.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8/gw-ftf-1.0) with ESMTP id TAA02277; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:43:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk) Received: from deepo.prosa.dk (deepo.prosa.dk [192.168.100.10]) by mail.prosa.dk (8.8.8/8.8.5/prosa-1.1) with ESMTP id TAA14676; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:51:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by deepo.prosa.dk (8.8.8/8.8.5/prosa-1.1) id TAA03310; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:41:23 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19980910194122.37514@deepo.prosa.dk> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:41:22 +0200 From: Philippe Regnauld To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au Subject: Re: Any newer code for netbooting PC's? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: ; from Garance A Drosihn on Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 03:39:28PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386 Phone: +45 3336 4148 Address: Ahlefeldtsgade 16, 1359 Copenhagen K, Denmark Organization: PROSA Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garance A Drosihn writes: > I vaguely remember a few articles go by in the past few months which > had to do with improved support for netbooting. I thought I saved > the messages away, but I can't find them now even though I've tried > several likely searches of the mailing-list archives. > > I *think* they had to do with the situation where you have boot-rom's > on a PC, and then they can connect to some server to download the > entire system image to disk (at least, that's what I am interested > in). Anyone remember any work going on in that area? Imagecast.com. Otherwise, you want what two University of Geneva students have done (with the eeprom company -- InCom -- mentioned by Mike Smith): http://cuiwww.unige.ch/info/pc/remote-boot/howto.html This is _very_ good work. I will be using it with FreeBSD here on course + prod. machines multibooting NT/95/FreeBSD. -- -[ Philippe Regnauld / sysadmin / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk / +55.4N +11.3E ]- The Internet is busy. Please try again later. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message