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From: jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Boot PROM for NI5210.
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Date: 17 Jun 88 14:51:50 GMT
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It is a good deal of work to get DOS to boot over a network interface, and
the only people I'm sure can do it is 3Com.  They have a diskless workstation,
which can boot from a 3-Server using their 3+ LAN software, using an add-on
prom on the network interface card.  There may be others (someone here thinks
Novell can, too), but I think they're all based on private LAN packages.  It
could be done with NFS, but if Sun isn't doing it, I don't think it is being
done.

James VanBokkelen
FTP Software Inc.