[Etherboot-users] [release] A diskette to detect etherboot file for uncertain NIC.

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Hi!
If you think it's really annoying to choose the etherboot file for your
unknown or uncertain network card, here you are...
We wrote a tool to detect etherboot ROM file for NIC, it's all in a
floppy. Just put it into your client machine, boot from it, it will
prompt you which lzdsk you should use for etherboot-5.0.11.

Check this for screenshot
http://drbl.nchc.org.tw/kernel/drbl_nic_detect.jpg

for the image file, check this:
http://drbl.nchc.org.tw/kernel/drbl_nic_detect.img
After you download it, use "dd if=drbl_nic_detect.img of=/dev/fd0u
1440" to write it in floppy disk.

By the way, if you are interested, check our project - DRBL (Diskless
Remote Boot in Linux)
http://drbl.sf.net (English)
or
http://drbl.nchc.org.tw (Chinese Big5)
It's an easy solution to setup a diskless environment in Linux.

Steven.
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Steven Shiau [Chinese Big5] 蕭志榥
NCHC [Chinese Big5] 國家高速網路與計算中心
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