On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 11:55:25AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > 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? > > 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!
Etherboot works fine; however, for 3C905c there is another solution, which is much easier to setup (at least it was for me): PXE. The 905c BIOS supports PXE booting, and all you need to do on the FreeBSD server side is setup DHCP and NFS (and maybe some BOOTP and TFTP too, I do not really remember right now). Some documentation on setting up a PXE-booted FreeBSD installation may be found in Alfred Perlstein's article at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html G'luck, Peter -- .siht ekil ti gnidaer eb d'uoy ,werbeH ni erew ecnetnes siht fI To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
