On Thursday 22 November 2001 12:10, Holm Tiffe wrote:
Hi,
it is the time again for me to investigate how diskless
booting -current is working today.
I've got a german Telekom TDSL line und must convert from my
oldish I4B diskless router (386/40) to a new one, that's
capable to handle the DSL speed at 768K/sec.
Since there are now to many differences between my -current
workstation at home and the 4.1-stable that's my i4B router
boots diskless, I've decided to run -current on the new router
also and I wish to share the / and the /usr filesystems
between the two.
I have an 10base5 Network at home and the DSL modem comes with
an 10baseT interface.
The Network cards I wish to use are some oldish WD8013 with an
etherboot rom and dhcp and for the DSL side an 3C509.
What ist the way to boot , eg. which file I have to load with
dhcp? The cards doesn't support pxe.
Please point me in the right direction...
If you really only plan to use the machine as a router than I
suggest using picoBSD. That way you don't need any disk at all,
except for a floppy.
I have a tarball laying around here which is based on 4.4, I
think, and which is intended for just such an application - a
pppoe router booted from floppy.
I haven't tried it out myself, but I did look at what's in the
package and it appears to provide all the funcionality needed.
If you're interested I could send it to you.
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Gary Jennejohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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