Re: diskless boot

[Ian Fry <Ian.Fry%sophos.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 11:45:57AM +0000, Robert Swindells wrote:
> =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E5kan=20Th=F6rngren?= <hth%update.uu.se@localhost> wrote:
> >I stumbled over a debian installation faq for ARM that mentioned 
> >boot> boot de0:
> >Does not work, I tried setting de0: in the boot enviroment variable
> >too, but no. Tried many other variants, le0, eth0 etc..  No go.
> >It likes to say "No such file or directory"
> I think it will only netboot from a network card that uses the 'ne'
> driver.

No, you can boot with a DEC Tulip based card too - I did this the other
day to recover a botched update... Look in the mailing list archives for a
thread titled 'netboot and dhcpd.conf' a week or two back - that contains
some details that should get you going.

Ian.