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From: mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de (Martin Welk)
Newsgroups: list.freebsd.chat,list.freebsd.questions,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Root filesystem on NFS, Linux style ???
Date: 6 Jul 1996 21:46:37 +0200
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In article <4r81kk$ovg@plato.ucsalf.ac.uk>,
Mark Powell <mark@plato.ucsalf.ac.uk> wrote:
> Linux allows a kernel to be booted from DOS and then perform it's own RARP
>to find it's IP and root filesystem over NFS. FreeBSD only seems to allow this
>with the netboot.(com|rom) program (albeit using BOOTP.) We use this here to
>allow users to turn their PC into an X terminal be selecting an option from
>our DOS menu system. We currently do it with Linux. However, I'd prefer to
>do it with FreeBSD, for obvious reasons. NETNOOT.COM does not work
>if there is already a network driver loaded, as there is in our case.
>Is there anything afoot allow the kernel to be configured with some of
>the netboot.com functionality into the kernel?
I experienced that QEMM screws up when running NETBOOT, so I simply
created a boot menu under MS-DOS 6.22 and let people choose it at
boot time - no network driver conflicts, no memory manager conflicts.
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