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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!eff!news.umbc.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!torn!mcshub!martin From: martin@innovus.com (Martin Renters) Subject: Re: Does bootp run on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <1994Jan24.203610.17060@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Sender: usenet@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: foxtrot.innovus.com Organization: Innovus Inc., Hamilton, Ont. CANADA References: <2hka4n$gh1@scunix2.harvard.edu> <JKH.94Jan20222311@whisker.lotus.ie> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 20:36:10 GMT Lines: 23 In article <JKH.94Jan20222311@whisker.lotus.ie>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@whisker.lotus.ie> wrote: >In article <2hka4n$gh1@scunix2.harvard.edu> pfarrer@isr.harvard.edu (David M. Pfarrer) writes: > Subject line says it all -- anyone have any experience running bootp > under FreeBSD? Thanks for any info. > >If by this you mean "does FreeBSD support booting diskless", then the >answer is yes (with certain WD 8013 cards, at least). Work on this is >ongoing, but I'll let the author himself comment further if he choses to >do so. I guess that means me. I don't think there is a version of bootp for FreeBSD right now (at least there isn't in the main source tree). There is, however, support for booting diskless if you have a bootp/tftp server somewhere on your network. The WD80x3 cards are supported at the moment from a dos executable or via ROM on the ethernet card. Adding bootp to the source tree for FreeBSD is something that needs to be done. Martin