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Date:      Thu, 5 Jun 1997 19:05:59 +0600 (ESD)
From:      "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: netboot in prom
Message-ID:  <199706051306.TAA04601@hq.icb.chel.su>
In-Reply-To: <19970605085657.GY12396@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jun 5, 97 08:56:57 am

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> 
> As mef@cs.washington.edu wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone use the netboot program in a prom on an ethernet card?
> 
> Yep.  What's the problem?  The only thing i didn't get to work was
> booting off a 3C509 card, since it only provides for 8 KB of ROM,
> which is too few for netboot.

I'm not sure but as far as I know 3c509 supports several different
types or ROM of different size. You just need to use another
type of ROM chips. At least the BootWare boot ROM for 3c509
is of 32KB size.

-SB



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