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From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Boot 386BSD over the Internet!
Message-ID: <712592771snx@crynwr.com>
Date: 31 Jul 92 14:26:11 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Crynwr Software
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Here's an interesting idea: Make a boot disk that has Ethernet
drivers for most popular boards.  It should autodetect to see what
the board and its parameters are. Include TCP/IP support in that
kernel.  After the kernel starts up, it goes to a particular site (or
set of sites, maybe pinging them to find the closest/least loaded)
and starts FTPing the rest of the distribution onto the hard disk.

-russ <nelson@crynwr.com>  I'm proud to be a humble Quaker!
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