Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 14:23:56 +1000 From: Andrew <mynet@uq.net.au> To: wjc@work.cleartech.com Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Diskless Booting of a Notebook? Message-ID: <3746315C.4993C871@uq.net.au> References: <199905212210.SAA04136@sunpal1.mit.edu>
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My guess is the next best solution would be to make a bootable floppy disk that loads the kernel and the PCMCIA stuff and then mounts a remote filesystem. Cheers Andrew Bill Chiarchiaro wrote: > Is there a method for diskless booting of a notebook via a PCMCIA > Ethernet card? > > The hardware I have is: > > HP OmniBook 4000C (486DX100, 24 MB RAM, floppy drive, etc.) > Linksys EC2T Combo PCMCIA EthernetCard > > I have two other machines running FreeBSD 3.1, either of which could > be the boot server. > > Have I jumped too quickly the conclusion that netboot does *not* > support PCMCIA ethernet cards? > > Thanks for any information, > > Bill Chiarchiaro > wjc@work.cleartech.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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