>"... Netboot and Etherboot have their strengths and weaknesses. Netboot >supports a wider range of NICs because packet drivers are available for >most cards. On the down side, Netboot is not autoprobing because the >packet drivers require that the I/O address, IRQ and possibly the memory >address be specified at ROM creation time. Thus a ROM is specific to a >particular card configuration. ..." The need to specify a I/O address is probably not a limitation anymore for Netboot since PCI BIOSes can autoconfigure. =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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