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From: paulo@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Paulo Menezes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ethernet BOOT proms
Date: 5 Jun 1994 17:02:23 GMT
Organization: Dep. de Matematica da Univ. de Coimbra
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Philippe Regnauld (regnauld@imladris.frmug.fr.net) wrote:
> Hi!

> 	I wonder if anybody knows where to get the files to flash
> 	proms for booting a PC by Ethernet (I've got an E-net
> 	ethernet card with a socket just for that).  This would
> 	be to enable it booting FreeBSD off my Sun, so as not to
> 	buy a HD for the PC.

I am interested in this specially for the 3C506 and 3C509
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