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From: Marty C. <md...@th...> - 2001-04-21 22:33:10
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Greetings fans of Network Booting, I have updated http://rom-o-matic.net/ with a new test version of Etherboot which has a rewritten Tulip driver and incorporates a recent patch to the loader.S code which may help people whose BIOSes were not recognizing their ROMs in earlier development releases. We are now very close to the release of the next production release of Etherboot, version 5.0. So now would be a great time to test the latest production release. Using http://rom-o-matic.net/ you can build a customised Etherboot image in about 5 seconds. For example, to create a floppy bootable image for a tulip or clone card, just select "tulip" from the "NIC/ROM Type" menu, and "Floppy Bootable ROM Image" from the "Output Format" menu, and press "Get ROM". Save the image to disk when prompted. If should be called something like "eb-4.7.24-mc2-tulip.lzdsk". (MIE/Windows users, please read the note on the site about how to work around an MIE bug when downloading images). Now copy your image to a blank formatted floppy with: cat eb-4.7.24-mc2-tulip.lzdsk > /dev/fd0 and try booting a machine with it. If you're using DOS/Windows you can use the RAWRITE program to write the floppy image to a floppy. RAWRITE is usually on Linux installation CDs as well as at the usual Linux distribution sites like Red Hat and Debian's ftp sites. Many Thanks to all the people who have given us (and will give us) feedback on the development versions of Etherboot. Your reward will be a solid new production release. --- Try: http://rom-o-matic.net/ to make Etherboot images instantly. Name: Marty Connor US Mail: Entity Cyber, Inc.; P.O. Box 391827; Cambridge, MA 02139; USA Voice: (617) 491-6935, Fax: (617) 491-7046 Email: md...@th... Web: http://www.thinguin.org/ |
