> Ie: a floppy that contains linux and tons of net drivers that would detect
> the network card and then immediately etherboot from that? This would be
> preferable to the "guess and check" method we are employing now.. Despite
> the fact that it would take a bit longer to load from the floppy..
> 
> I suppose this would involve user mode etherbooting? Has this ever been
> done?

Etherboot is quite capable of producing a floppy image with multiple
drivers included.  See:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>well if it is a space issue on the floppy to have more network card
>supported. how do i go to create a floppy that can work for any network
>card. and if it does not find a linux terminal server let the computer
>boot on the next bootable device. i think most computer are set to boot
>on floppy first and if fails then go to some hard disk.
>thanks.
>kemal
>Any suggestion is wellcome.

I've already prepared a multi-driver network boot floppy.
You can look at http://thinstation.sourceforge.net/download.html
in the "contribs".

For the EB developers: perhaps my boot-floppy is useful for more than
one people.... please consider showing a link to it from somewhere in
the etherboot web site or from rom-o-matic....

bye!

Paolo



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