Re: Pocket Adaptor support?

[<markus@infoscape.com>]

Richard Gooch writes:
 >   Hi, all. Recently I asked about network booting via a PCMCIA
 > EtherNet card. In my quest for a solution, I'm also wondering about
 > booting from one of those pocket adaptors (the ones that plug into the
 > parallel port). Would that be easier to support than PCMCIA?
 > 
 > Once again, I'd be quite happy to be able to stick in a floppy disc to
 > a laptop and have it boot into the BOOTP client and download the
 > kernel and compressed root FS from a server.
 > 
 > Is this something I can ever expect to see? :-)

Hmm, it should not be incredibly to write a PLIP adapter for
etherboot. Admittedly, this is a pretty strange idea, but it is
probably the easiest way to bootstrap a Linux kernel onto a
CD-ROM-less laptop.

Any volunteers ;-)


Markus

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