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At 13:06 06/08/2002, John P. Looney wrote:
>[snip]
>  There is a nice need 'add_install_client' script that you feed the
>archtecture, ethernet address & ip to, and it'll setup everything from
>RARP to Bootparams for you. Very simple.

Yep, very handy and easy enough.

>  This script takes a -d option, to boot via DHCP also. On the negative
>side, Sun's terminal handling leaves a lot to be desired - it won't work
>properly on a Wyse 120+ for instance, no matter what emulation mode the
>Wyse is trying to do.

True, SUN's terminal handling isn't the best in the world.

>  To do PC netbooting properly, you need an motherbard with a PXE BIOS.
>Then you are flying.

OR a network card with a BootRom installed, and BIOS support to boot of the 
network.

>  Heh, how hard would it be to get a PC with an OpenBoot prom ?

You could burn a PROM yourself, if you'd wish. I believe that the netboot 
project would have a PROM you could download and burn, having the needed 
h/w of course.. ;)

//Anders//


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