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Freely redistributable universal network boot floppies for Linux
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3c503.floppy Boot floppy for 3Com 3c503 ethernet card
3c509.floppy Boot floppy for 3Com 3c509 ethernet card
ne.floppy Boot floppy for NE2000 or compatible ethernet card
wd.floppy Boot floppy for Western Digital WD80*3 ethernet card
USAGE NOTES
These floppy images are configured to assume that your ethernet
card is at address 0x300. If you are using the 3c503, you must have
the BIOS ROM enabled. The 3c503, ne2000 and Western Digital floppies
have been tested. The 3c509 floppy has not been tested as of the
writing of this document (26 April 1996).
REBUILDING FROM SOURCE
The source code for these floppy disks consists of the
etherboot-1.1 package and the comboot-1.1 boot sector. You can
get this software from the following locations:
etherboot:
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Linux-boot/etherboot-1.1.tar.gz
ftp.yggdrasil.com:/mirrors/sunsite/system/Linux-Boot/etherboot-1.1.tar.gz
comboot:
ftp.yggdrasil.com:/pub/dist/booting/comboot-1.0.tar.gz
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Linux-boot/comboot-1.0.tar.gz
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/dos_utils/comboot-1.0.tar.gz
Once you have the tar files of comboot-1.0 and etherboot-1.1,
you would type the following to rebuild the boot floppies (I have
tested these commands):
tar xfpz comboot-1.0.tar.gz
tar xfpvz etherboot-1.1.tar.gz
cd comboot-1.0
make install # Installs /usr/lib/bootsectors/comboot
cd ../etherboot-1.1/netboot-32
make
for x in *.com ; do
cat /usr/lib/bootsectors/comboot $x > `basename $x .com`.floppy
done
POINTERS TO DOCUMENTATION
For documention on how to use the diskless boot floppies, see the
README file in etherboot-1.1, which is FTPable from
sunsite.unc.edu:pub/Linux/system/Linux-boot. You will also have to install
bootpd and tftpd on a server machine. The machine that is running
bootpd must be on the same ethernet as the diskless client. Once
you have installed bootpd, doing a "man bootptab" should give you
useful information on the /etc/bootptab file which you will have to
edit to set up diskless bootking.
COPYRIGHT
These floppy images were made the etherboot and comboot software
packages. Because their contents are covered by the GNU General
Public License, if you distribute these images, you must distribute
the source code to both etherboot and comboot or make it available
in certain ways, as spelled out by version 2 of the GNU General
Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation
(Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA). A copy of the GNU General Public
License is included in the file COPYING in this directory.
etherboot is available from the following locations:
sunsite.unc.edu:pub/Linux/system/Linux-Boot/etherboot-1.1.tar.gz
ftp.yggdrasil.com:mirrors/sunsite/system/Linux-Boot/etherboot-1.1.tar.gz
comboot is available from the following locations:
ftp.yggdrasil.com:pub/dist/comboot-1.0.tar.gz
sunsite.unc.edu:pub/Linux/system/Linux-Boot/comboot-1.0.tar.gz
tsx-11.mit.edu, directory to be determined
This README file was written by Adam J. Richter and is copyright
Yggdrasil Computing, Inc., 1996. It may be freely copied under
the terms and conditions of version 2 of the GNU General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
MAINTAINER
adam@yggdrasil.com (Adam J. Richter)