Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:12:46 +0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Billings) Subject: Re: network boot
using a QuickKeys macro or similar. I guess all of these tricks die when you're running System 7.x. For System 7.x it would be worth looking at the Sonic Diskless Mac products to see if they implemented any useful trickery.
From what I could gather the Diskless systems use custom boot proms in the
network cards to boot from the remote server, much like in the old days of
PC's, so all the 'useful trickery tm' would be in the firmware of the prom.
Regards Sean.
Of course (and I've never tried this on a Mac, just some Sun SparcStations and Linux), was to have the a floppy disk boot some of the kernel with network drivers, then load the rest of the kernel via TCP/IP using TFTP. The rest of the kernel would load into RAM (or a loop device) and you would have something like 'xdm' or a variant windowing screen. This simulates the PROM firmware function, but was an easier fix since floppy kernels could be recompiled quickly to adjust for system upgrades or addressing changes.
Jack
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