Source for BOOT-Prom images; the code is based on the FreeBSD network-bootloader and supports loading of Linux or DOS. WD/SMC, NE1000/NE2000 (ISA, PCI), 3c503, 3c507, 3c509, LANCE (NE2100, NI6510 and others, ISA, PCI), Intel EtherExpressPro 100, SMC9000, EPIC100, Tulip, 3C905B, Realtek 8139, SMC1211 and S&K G16 are supported. There is optional code for supporting NICs based on Crystal Semiconductor's CS89x0 chipset. A reference implementation of a compressor module is included.
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- https://downloads.sourceforge.net/etherboot/etherboot-5.4.3.tar.gz
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1 commentWe need etherboot because...
It's too silly to boot from harddrive in case of silly OSes, such as from Micros~1 but still too much people, that worked in it with Inet and network. So what to do Sysadm people? Network booting is a way to have always clear system, not to mention how foolish and dumb it is. Something go wrong? Just reboot, You're beliving it helps :)) And seems the PXE standart are paper's standart -- there are many bioses, that say they have network boot, but really they couldn't, though your network card is fully PXE-compatible. Bad choise for workstations :((