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Re: How to boot FreeBSD from DOS through a 3c905c ?




Robert Szelepcsenyi writes:
| I need setup several diskless clients - X terminals running under FreeBSD. I am looking for a DOS utility that could do boot FreeBSD through a 3c905c network card. However, I keep running into various problems I have not been able to solve:
|  
| Etherboot does not seem to support 3c905c. I even came across some message explicitly stating this. Due to my poor connection to the Internet I have not been able to download the source to verify this. Moreover I have a feeling that etherboot can't be compiled into a DOS utility, only a ROM image.

It works with my 3c905c.  Here is the FreeBSD "port".  Unpack it in
/usr/ports/net, cd into etherboot and do a make.  Resulting files are in
the src-32 directory.  I updated this port to 4.2.10.

Doug A.

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