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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!psinntp!crynwr!nelson From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Boot 386BSD over the Internet! Message-ID: <712592771snx@crynwr.com> Date: 31 Jul 92 14:26:11 GMT Distribution: world Organization: Crynwr Software Lines: 7 Here's an interesting idea: Make a boot disk that has Ethernet drivers for most popular boards. It should autodetect to see what the board and its parameters are. Include TCP/IP support in that kernel. After the kernel starts up, it goes to a particular site (or set of sites, maybe pinging them to find the closest/least loaded) and starts FTPing the rest of the distribution onto the hard disk. -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> I'm proud to be a humble Quaker! Crynwr Software Crynwr Software sells packet driver support. 11 Grant St. 315-268-1925 Voice [ if mail bounces, forward it ] Potsdam, NY 13676 315-268-9201 FAX [ to uuadmin@uu.psi.com. ]