Re: net boot

2001-02-27 Thread Brian Ashe
Hi John, On Tuesday, February 27, 2001, 12:18:09 PM, you babbled something about: JW> Hi, JW> I have a number of diskless linux boxes that currently boot from the JW> network. Currently they boot from a floppy that has a kernel rdev'd to JW> mount it's root filesystem from NFS. It sends out a b

Re: net boot

2001-02-27 Thread Bruce Bauer
3COM 3C905CTXM come with the boot PROM built in along with a configuration program for it. I have not used this functionality, but I know the cards work with Caldera OpenLinux and OpenBSD so they should work with RedHat. > Hi, > > I have a number of diskless linux boxes that currently boot f

net boot

2001-02-27 Thread John Weber
Hi, I have a number of diskless linux boxes that currently boot from the network. Currently they boot from a floppy that has a kernel rdev'd to mount it's root filesystem from NFS. It sends out a bootp request to get it's IP from a dhcp server. I'd like to change this method to use a boot (p)rom