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From: jgm@deakin.OZ.AU (John Moorfoot)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: WD8003E ROM option / Booting from the net
Message-ID: <1130@sol.deakin.OZ.AU>
Date: 13 Feb 91 02:20:21 GMT
References: <1991Feb8.143904.26633@cs.eur.nl>
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In article <1991Feb8.143904.26633@cs.eur.nl> evas@cs.eur.nl (Eelco van Asperen) writes:
>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.

Dirk Koppen (dirk@incom.de) has a BOOT ROM available that will do
what you want. It uses bootp and tftp to load a bootable disk
image into a RAM disk. We are using it and it works well - in
fact we are just about to convert all our PC laboratories over to
this method.
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