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From: mrichey@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mike Richey)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: does Netware have a boot protocol?
Message-ID: <26765BC4.22581@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 90 15:29:08 GMT
References: <1990Jun12.233535.5089@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: mrichey@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mike Richey)
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In article <1990Jun12.233535.5089@maytag.waterloo.edu> gamiddle@maytag.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) writes:
>Does Netware have something like BOOTP, so that clients can boot from code
>kept on a server?

Yes. There is a procedure call DOSGEN which installs a boot image file in
the login subdirectory of sys: (boot drive). On most network cards is a socket
to install a network boot prom. Instead of booting the workstation from a local
floppy or hard disk drive, it will boot from the netware volume. This is 
how diskless workstations access netware.

The boot proms are available from the manufacturer of the network cards, and
from second sources as well. Be aware that different versions of netware
may require certain revisions of firmware. You didn't mention what version
of Netware is resident on the server. (2.0, 2.1x, 3.0....etc)

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