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From: P85025@BARILVM.BITNET (Doron Shikmoni)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Remote Boot w/Lantastic and WD8003E/A
Message-ID: <91086.143115P85025@BARILVM.BITNET>
Date: 27 Mar 91 13:41:21 GMT
Organization: Bar-Ilan University Computing Center, Israel
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I'm testing Lantastic/AI 3.03 and would like to set up for remote boot.
I'm using PS/2 systems with WD8003E/A (well, in fact, IBM Ethernet
Adapter/A, but it's the same thing). The adapter has an IBM boot ROM
installed (and enabled).

I prepared a boot image on the Lantastic Server and tried to activate
remote boot. Nothing happens. I monitored the network and saw some
802.3 packets broadcast from the booted PS/2 - but the server did
not respond.

I noticed that the IBM doc for the adapter speaks about booting in
Netware or Lan Manager environments. So - questions:

1. Am I making sense here? Can I remote boot a PS/2-55SX with
   the IBM Ethernet Adapter/A w/boot ROM when the server runs
   Lantastic?

2. Is the boot ROM specific to the type of network I'm booting
   from? Not knowing much about remote boot process, I thought
   that there's a certain kind of packet that asks for remote
   boot, and it's similar with all networks. I may be far off
   here...

3. What do I need to do in order to remote boot in my environment?
   Is there a special boot ROM for Netbios networks, for example?
   Will Lantastic allow all this?

Sorry, but I know very little about remote booting and didn't find
anywhere to look. The Lantastic doc is very vague about this issue.

Thanks
Doron