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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:13:46 -0800 (PST)
From:      Stefan Molnar <stefan@csudsu.com>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        Chris Shenton <cshenton@OutBounderInc.com>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ThinkNIC booting FreeBSD? [WAS: Re: Silent FreeBSD]
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.31.0102272212560.79141-100000@digital.csudsu.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A9C9834.6D95C4C2@softweyr.com>

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Just turn on network boot in the bios, and setup the server for
a PXE Client.   No hardware to add.

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Wes Peters wrote:

> Stefan Molnar wrote:
> >
> > Wes, you do not even need the flash to netboot, since it supports
> > PXE.   And it boots very nicely
>
> Oh, cool.  Is the boot rom on the machine, or is there a socket there
> somewhere?  Where can I get a ROM image?  Netbooting FreeBSD on our
> several NICs at work would probably make them much faster than running
> leeenoooks off the CD-ROM.
>
> --
>             "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
>
> Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
> wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/
>


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