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- From: ccaajmf@ucl.ac.uk (John Franks)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: Boot ROMs for Western Digital cards?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.115107.5734@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 11:51:07 GMT
- References: <12673@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium, London
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- In article <12673@ecs.soton.ac.uk> jkf87r@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Julian Field) writes:
- >We have a whole bunch of PC's with Western Digital Ethernet cards in
- >them.
- >
- >Is there any way we can get these to boot over a net from a Unix
- >server ??
- >
- >The cards have a socket for a boot ROM, but what is available, and
- >what is needed on the Unix end ?
- >
-
- Consult the manual entry for "bootpd" on a unix box. This is the thing -using
- the bootp protocol - that boots X stations. Now, there's a little company
- in Germany (called "schasiepen", I think) that makes the things.
- Unfortunately, someone's just borrowed the docs, but e-mail to
- support@unipalm.co.uk should get some info - that's the only address for them
- I know, sorry. Unipalm is the UK distributor.
-
- You can boot machines, which download a disk image into normal or high RAM,
- and do fancy things like patching, too, so that you only need one, generic
- disk image floating around. Recommended. I posted this rather than e-mailed it
- because I like the idea.
-
- Oh, more about bootp from RFC951, and a couple of later ones.
-
- John Franks, ccaajmf@ucl.ac.uk or jmf14@phx.cam.ac.uk to readers in Cambridge.
- "And a thousand slimy things
- Lived on; and so did I."
-