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From: verber@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Verber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: booting diskless macs on net
Message-ID: <494@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 17:13:11 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 15 17:13:11 1987
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As far as I know, no one currently has anything that will do this.
Many universities have hassled Apple about this, but it has stated
very low priority.  Only recently did we get an agreement that the
MacII with EtherTalk should have that capability (when running A/UX).

Two of the guys here have the basic design of a daughter board which
would sit over the ROMs.  It will use a programmable logic array to 
patch key locations in the ROM and then have PROM for a network
booter, etc.  This will be finish as soon :-) as things calm down here.

If you had someone who was willing to put out a bit of work you could
hack something together yourself.  The easiest hack would be to build
a little SCSI device that would load in a network bootstrap and the
go.

Cheers,
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