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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!metro!socs.uts.edu.au!syzygy!raz Date: 3 Aug 92 09:21:11 GMT Message-ID: <raz.712833671@syzygy> From: raz@socs.uts.edu.au (The Inimitable Raz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Boot 386BSD over the Internet! References: <712592771snx@crynwr.com> <3689@wzv.win.tue.nl> rob@wzv.win.tue.nl (Rob J. Nauta) writes: >nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes: >>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. >Nice idea, but not really useable. To be able to ftp the rest of the >distribution you first need to allocate an IP number within the local >network. So automatical loading upon first boot is a little difficult. Why not prompt the user for an IP number and pass it as a parameter to (a modified) /etc/netstart? -- Bye for now. - Raz raz@socs.uts.edu.au (Roland Turner) (OH) 61 2 580 2888