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From: angelini@irisa.fr (Pierre Antoine Angelini)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Booting PC-NFS off ROM?
Message-ID: <1990Jul27.101935.24011@irisa.fr>
Date: 27 Jul 90 10:19:35 GMT
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In article <90207.161845TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET> TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET (Thomas Dwyer III) writes:
>Does anyone know of a method do boot PC-NFS off a ROM?  Suppose we write
>our own PROM to download a bootdisk image into memory.  How would we then
>get the PC to use this disk image instead of the A: drive?  Or suppose
>we steal INT 13 and just feed the BIOS our own bootstrap code when it
>tries to read the boot sector.  This code would then download IBMBIO.COM
>and run it, but then how do we feed it IBMDOS.COM, etc?
>
>Any comments/suggestions/etc?
>
This has been made by:

Schasiepen(ratingen)

Address:
Carl Schasiepen Gmbh
Harkorsts 25 Postfach 22 60
4030 Ratingen 1 Tiefenbroich
Germany

Tel 49 2102 49 06 0

They use a 3C503 or WD8003EBT

I didn't order it, so I can't give any other impressions about that product.
It works with Bootp and Tftp, loads an image of the PC system, etc...


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