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Date: 3 Aug 92 09:21:11 GMT
Message-ID: <raz.712833671@syzygy>
From: raz@socs.uts.edu.au (The Inimitable Raz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Boot 386BSD over the Internet!
References: <712592771snx@crynwr.com> <3689@wzv.win.tue.nl>
rob@wzv.win.tue.nl (Rob J. Nauta) writes:
>nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
>>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.
>Nice idea, but not really useable. To be able to ftp the rest of the
>distribution you first need to allocate an IP number within the local
>network. So automatical loading upon first boot is a little difficult.
Why not prompt the user for an IP number and pass it as a parameter
to (a modified) /etc/netstart?
--
Bye for now.
- Raz
raz@socs.uts.edu.au (Roland Turner) (OH) 61 2 580 2888