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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!ub4b!sunbim!usenet
- From: fr@eagle.mumath (Farid Rahmi)
- Subject: Re : Diskless PCNFS?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.170435.7956@sunbim.be>
- Sender: usenet@sunbim.be (user news)
- Reply-To: fr@eagle.mumath
- Organization: BIM sa
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 17:04:35 GMT
- Lines: 59
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- Hi Nick,
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- Here in United Europe people make a living out of selling a solution that allows PC's
- to boot diskless from a Unix box. The trick is to use bootp (a publicly available boot
- protocol) and siliconize a DOS bootfloppy - burn it into a PROM.
-
- Hope that you manage to get this running all this by yourself (bootp is on the net),
- but if you don't, these are the coordinates (even found a signature which includes an
- e-mail adress !). Pricing was moderate two years ago (about $150).
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-
- Farid
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- TCP/IP BOOT-PROM
-
- The TCP/IP BOOT-PROM is a ROM-based device which allows users to boot
- MS-DOS and PC-NFS from a network server. The ROM plugs into the socket of
- the network controller and eliminates the need for a diskette- or fixed-disk
- drive to start up the operating system and PC-NFS.
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- Bootstrap information, the operating system, and PC-NFS are held on
- the network server. Every attached PC has its own entry in the configuration
- table on the file server.
-
- The server-based software uses standard TFTP and BOOTP protocols
- available on common TCP/IP implementations. No specialized software is needed
- on a network server based on UNIX or any other operating system that supports
- TCP/IP.
-
- BOOT-PROMs are available for the following Ethernet controllers:
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- Racal-InterLan's NI6510
- Western Digital's WD8003/8013
- 3Com's EtherLink II
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- Other controllers can be supported on request.
-
-
- Special Requirements: Ethernet controller with ROM socket.
- TFTP and BOOTP protocols on the network server.
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- For more information contact:
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- Dirk Koppen EDV-Beratung
- Holzwiensenweg 22
- D-6050 Offenbach
- Germany
- +49 69 89 3000
- FAX +49 69 89 3004
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- > Dirk Koeppen - Holzwiesenweg 22 - D-6050 Offenbach - Germany
- > Phone: +49 69 89 3000 - FAX: +49 69 89 3004 - email: dirk@incom.de
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