Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 12:45:41 +0100 (CET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: netnoot - INT 18 device Message-ID: <199912101145.MAA07130@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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I got a new machine (500 MHz PIII) with a 12 GB disk (nothing nowadays though :-). There was already NT 4.0 installed and a 3.9 GB unitialized partition left. I booted the 3.3 CD, chose Custom and tried to create a FreeBSD partition. 13200 blocks were left. I tried both, half of it and the whole left partition but afterwards in the label editor there was no entry I could define my filesystems on. Weird. Maybe a problem with large disks? Maybe that the FreeBSD partition has to be in the first 2 GB of a disk? Maybe because I could not create FreeBSD slices? Maybe I should repartition the whole disk, install FreeBSD and then reinstall NT . Sigh. To avoid all this the following idea came to me: while studying the BIOS boot options I saw ATAPI IDE, FD, and Int 18 device. Does FreeBSD support Int 18 Device? I assume this could be something like netboot, couldn't it? OTOH, the PCI 100 MBit ethernet card has a EPROM socket on it... With a 100MBit network, diskless could become interesting and I could try to netboot this machine. Any suggestions? -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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