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From: evas@cs.eur.nl (Eelco van Asperen)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: WD8003E ROM option / Booting from the net
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.143904.26633@cs.eur.nl>
Date: 8 Feb 91 14:39:04 GMT
Organization: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, dept. CS (Informatica)
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Hi,

I'm looking for info on the ROM option available on the Western Digital
WD8003E Ethernet cards and the possibilities of booting pc's from a
network server. We're a TCP/IP and (PC-)NFS shop here so Novell boot ROM's 
are not that interesting ;-). Given the specs, we should be able to
code it ourselves if necessary; we're already using a bootp implementation
for the pc to get some configuration info from our NFS server.

I tried to call the WD bbs number but that was no longer in use and
the same goes for the fax number mentioned in their documentation.

If other Ethernet boards for XT's (! :-() are better suited, I'd like
to know.

Any info will be highly appreciated and I'll summarise if enough people
are interested.

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