go for etherboot, it is in the ports, it works just great, and you
can even dump the code on your hard disk (i typically do it
on sectors 2..62, the empty part of the first track) so
you have an etherboot partition at no cost!
cheers
luigi
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 08:38:58PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> I'm trying to refresh my memory WRT netbooting:
>
> There used to be a subdirectory /sys/i386/boot/netboot or something like
> that but I don't find it anymore.
>
> Was it that one could also write the rom contents into a .com (DOS executable)
> and boot a DOS floppy and put the netboot.com in AUTOEXEC.BAT to enter
> the netboot procedure?
>
> I believe there were only native drivers for WD and NE2000 cards.
>
> I'm thinking of the diskless option again. Does anyone know whether
> 3COM 905c are supported in this vein?
>
>
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