I have a "magic floppy" which is nothing more than a DOS boot floppy with
the fboot.exe program on it and a BIOS image. This works like a charm for my
netbooting purposes:
Intel (R) Boot Agent Version 4.0.12
PXE 2.0 Build 082 (Wfm 2.0), RPC v2.7.3
Press Ctrl+S to enter the Setup Menu
I've written a rather lengthy document on the process at:
http://matt.simerson.net/computing/freebsd.netboot.shtml
I also have links to Alfreds PXE Jumpstart guide at
http://matt.simerson.net/computing/unix.shtml#freebsd
Anyway, that should help you out considerably. If I could legally give away
a floppy with WIN-98 MSDOS installed and the fboot.exe program I would but I
think doing so violates a software license or two.
Matt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Saab [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 3:23 PM
> To: Mike Smith
> Cc: Luigi Rizzo; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: What is the latest "known-good" PXE build ?
>
>
> Mike Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > > > The BIOS trace says the PXE is revision 2.0, build 68
> : is there some other,
> > > > > perhaps better version of it ? (the on-board NIC on
> the machine is an fxp)
> > > >
> > > > Build 068 is a disaster; you ideally want 082 or later.
> > >
> > > is there some standard way to upgrade the pxe code on the cards ?
> > > in case, where do i get it from ?
> >
> > You should be able to get updates from Intel, or if you
> have access to a
> > Windows development system you can grab the PXE reference
> implementation
> > kit and build your own.
>
> You still need the code to drive the nic, and noone gives this out.
>
> I have the latest stuff at:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~ps/pxeroms/
>
> Unfortunately you need windows to extract the files.. I can put up
> a few more of the files later when I get back from Munich which wont
> require you to use windows.
>
> --
> Paul Saab
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