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From: xjeldc@tts.lth.se (Jan Engvald)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Booting Packet Drivers from Ethernet ROMs
Keywords: packet drivers, novell, boot rom, romrel
Message-ID: <1991Feb3.231910.17394@lth.se>
Date: 3 Feb 91 23:19:10 GMT
References: <1991Jan25.104947.3482@cside1.uucp>
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Reply-To: xjeldc@ldc.lu.se (Jan Engvald)
Organization: Lund University Computing Center, Sweden
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In article <1991Jan25.104947.3482@cside1.uucp> kuyper@cside1.UUCP (Kuyper Hoffman) writes:
>I am looking for some help with installing packet drivers on
>diskless workstations booting from ROM.
>
>I have read the Case Study by Wesleyan University which outlines
>every step in lurid detail -- many thanks to the people responsible
>for compiling this excellent document -- and have been able to
>achieve the goal by following the steps as laid out in it.
>
>However I have two problems; actually one point of concern and one
>real problem.  The former relates to ROMREL.COM, the program that
>releases the hooks into the system BIOS.  When I run this on a
> ...
>The real problem I have, however, is that the method described by
>Wesleyan involves the use of a RamDrive which is fine if you have a
>1MB machine and can place it in extended memory.

Get the current version of packet drivers (7.x). They have full
support for PROM boot and does not require ROMREL and RAMdisks.
The PROMBOOT.NOTe file explains it all. The secret is to use the
-n and -d options (and add -w so you can be prepared for Windows).
As always, don't forget to copy the AUTOEXEC.BAT file also to the
SYS:LOGIN directory. It is easy and works well.

You can get the packet drivers (file DRIVERS.ZIP) by anonymous FTP
from sun.soe.clarkson.edu, there is also a mail server.

                                             
Jan Engvald, Lund University Computing Center
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